I'm trying the static bindings for glfw of bindbc on Windows,
using the pre-compiled .lib files from the lib-vc2015 folder in
the official download.
(http://code.dlang.org/packages/bindbc-glfw)
With LDC using the Microsoft MSCV linker, everything works. I can
either add this:
app.d:
```
version(X86) pragma(lib, "lib32/glfw3.lib");
version(X86_64) pragma(lib, "lib64/glfw3.lib");
```
Or this:
dub.sdl:
```
libs "lib32/glfw3" platform="windows-x86"
libs "lib64/glfw3" platform="windows-x86-64"
```
And then these:
dub --arch=x86 --compiler=ldc2
dub --arch=x86_64 --compiler=ldc2
Both work, albeit with a lot of warnings:
libcmt.lib(initializers.obj) : warning LNK4098: defaultlib
'msvcrt.lib' conflicts with use of other libs; use
/NODEFAULTLIB:library
glfw3.lib(init.c.obj) : warning LNK4217: locally defined symbol
___stdio_common_vsprintf imported in function __glfwInputError
glfw3.lib(wgl_context.c.obj) : warning LNK4049: locally defined
symbol _calloc imported
I omitted about 30 more LNK4049 warnings.
With --link-internally, I get the same warnings. It finishes
linking, but running results in a "Program exited with code
-1073741819".
With dmd, I have less luck. First of all, I have to use
--arch=x86_mscoff, or else it uses OPTLINK for 32-bit which only
handles OMF, though ldc says "Unsupported architecture:
x86_mscoff" when I do that, which is inconsistent.
But that's just a minor annoyance, the error is that there are 82
unresolved externals.
glfw3.lib(win32_init.c.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external
symbol __imp__RegisterDeviceNotificationW@12 referenced in
function _createHelperWindow
glfw3.lib(win32_init.c.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external
symbol __imp__CreateWindowExW@48 referenced in function
_createHelperWindow
...
I think dmd uses the same linker as LDC, but I don't know how to
tell for sure.
I mentioned a lot of issues in this post, but I'll be happy if I
can compile it with dmd. Making it work with lld and removing the
warnings are also nice, but I can live with Microsoft's linker
and some command line clutter. Any help will be appreciated.
