On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 at 17:49:33 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
What do people think of adding an argument to DMD to add library search paths? Currently the only way I know how to do this would be via linker-specific flags, i.e.

GCC: -L-L/usr/lib
MSVC: -L-libpath:C:\mylibs
OPTLINK: -L+C:\mylibs\

NOTE: the optlink version only works if no .def file is specified. If you have a .def file, then you can't add any library search paths :)

If we added a new "linker-independent" flag to dmd, then you could add paths using the same interface regardless of which linker you are using. I'd expect the argument to be something like:

-libpath=<some-path>

The disadvantage is it would be another command line option added to DMD. If there is general agreement that this is a desirable feature, I'll go ahead and implement it.

no one responded to this, but I thought I would bump this to the front page to double check if there is any interest in this feature.

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