Re: Another D feature

Bram Moolenaar wrote:

> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> 
> 
>>The attached pathces add a new feature for D programmers in
>>addition to documenting it. (Also, my last patch is overwritten
>>by this one since it doesn't seem that it has come through to
>>the cvs server.)
>>
>>The feature in question, is the possibility to create an import
>>library while building a dll.
> 
> 
> I don't quite understand it.  Setting $DIMPLIB to "yes" appears to add
> the "-L/implib" argument.  Does this mean to use the "/implib"
> directory?  Then what if someone would want to use another directory?

No, '/implib' is a linker switch that creates foo.lib in addition to
foo.dll.

Possibly the variable should be called IMPLIB or CREATEIMPLIB as it
isn't really D specific in any way.

> 
> I did change that import statement and it does appear in CVS.  Don't
> know why you can't see it...
> 

Well, I'll check again later, but I did use 'cvs diff' to create the
patch. Should have worked then, shouldn't it?

Lars Ivar Igesund



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