Re: Another D feature

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.

OK.  It's very confusing that "-L" means something completely different
on other systems.

> > 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?

If you use the CVS-browse function on SourceForge you can see the patch
was included.  I don't know why "cvs diff" whould not use it.  Perhaps
it's using another CVS server that lags behind for a week or so.

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