On Sunday, 21 February 2016 at 21:51:27 UTC, kraxli wrote:
a) doesn't work, I need to search for more information on
linking as I would like to understand these kind of basics in D
:-). The books I consulted so far (Learn D and D cookbook) did
not help me to understand the linking so far ...
I didn't go much into it in D Cookbook since I don't use
libraries like this...
the easiest way IMO is to forget the -I switch exists, don't use
it, and don't mess with .lib/.a files at all either. Just pass
all the source files to the compiler together so like:
dmd yourprogram.d /path/to/consoled/consoled.d
and it will all just work because then the compiler knows where
the module is (thus obviating -I) and can compile the source
on-demand (thus skipping the library linking).
But if you don't do it this way, linking is just getting all the
*compiled* code together, whereas the -I think is just about
getting all the *imported source* together.
When you import something, the compiler reads the declarations
for a module, but does not necessarily generate code for it.
Linking links the generated code for the different modules
together.
