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D / Re: DSFML + Mac OS X

« on: July 20, 2013, 11:18:32 am »

It does, but DMD is actually a front end of the compiler. It uses different back ends for different systems. You actually came up with the answer I was looking for as DMD uses gcc for linkage on OSX.

When using DMD it has its own -L switch in order for it to know what to pass to the linker. So I guess it is actually going to be:

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dmd main.d system.d audio.d graphics.d window.d network.d -L-L/usr/local/lib/ -L-lcsfml-system -L-lcsfml-audio -L-lcsfml-graphics -L-lcsfml-network -L-lcsfml-window
And if that works it means the idea I had will work perfectly!

Just tried it now, and the compilation was successful!

Matt.

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D / Re: DSFML + Mac OS X

« on: July 19, 2013, 11:47:40 pm »

-L+, as it turns out is Windows specific(to Optlink), and after looking around I think I got it.

Instead, try:
-L-L/usr/local/lib/

The first -L passes the "-L/usr/local/lib/" to the linker, which should keep /usr/local/lib/ as a path to look for your dylib's. Hopefully that one works. I would be *very* surprised if there was no way to give the linker a search directory.

I'm currently using Mono-D

I currently use Mono-D too, though I've been considering the idea of writing a new IDE in D using GtkD.

I did actually try changing it to -L-L, but the linker still reports that "libcsfml-system.dylib could not be found." Very odd...

And an IDE would be a cool project! I had a look into making a plugin for IntelliJ, but I had no idea where to start, haha.

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D / Re: DSFML + Mac OS X

« on: July 19, 2013, 10:56:02 pm »

Is it possible to add a search directory to the linker and then use just the names of the dylib's? Something like

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dmd main.d system.d audio.d graphics.d window.d network.d -L+/usr/local/lib/ -Llibcsfml-system.dylib -Llibcsfml-audio.dylib -Llibcsfml-graphics.dylib -Llibcsfml-network.dylib -Llibcsfml-window.dylib

Purely copy-pasting that results in the linker telling me that no such directory ("+/usr/local/lib") exists. Changing it to "-L/usr/local/lib" has the linker telling me no such file ("libcsfml-system.dylib") exists.

Sadly, I don't think there is a way around having to include all these parameters.

I'm currently using Mono-D, so I've attached a guide (in PDF form) to help those on OS X (mainly), but it could probably be used by those on Linux/Windows, too.

(Can't attach it on the forum, so I've uploaded it to MediaFire: http://www.mediafire.com/view/71feojna1n25fiy/Setting_up_DSFML_with_Mono.pdf)

Regards,
Matt.

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D / Re: DSFML + Mac OS X

« on: July 19, 2013, 09:20:55 pm »

Thanks for the replies guys! It turns out that you can actually link to .dylibs with D (although the website page on the OS X compiler makes no mention of this ability).

I googled for "dmd dylib" and it turns out that using the compiler switch "-L<path to lib>/libname.dylib" will link the binaries in!

So, to compile a test program with DMD on OS X, you must do the following (assuming you installed CSFML into the directory recommended by the install instructions):

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dmd main.d system.d audio.d graphics.d window.d network.d -L/usr/local/lib/libcsfml-system.dylib -L/usr/local/lib/libcsfml-audio.dylib -L/usr/local/lib/libcsfml-graphics.dylib -L/usr/local/lib/libcsfml-network.dylib -L/usr/local/lib/libcsfml-window.dylib
It seems you cannot just link in the entire directory, and each *.dylib must be included by name.

I've yet to fully test whether it works or not, but I suspect there are no issues (if it works on Linux, one could presume it should work on OS X).

Edit: Just tested, and yep, works perfectly! Thanks for the bindings, Jebbs

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D / DSFML + Mac OS X

« on: July 18, 2013, 08:47:05 pm »

Hi!

I recently came across Jebbs' DSFML binding, I've been looking for an Object-Oriented wrapper, and Derelict is limited by the fact it uses a C binding (aka no OO).

However, the libraries included are all either .dll or .lib, neither of which are supported by dmd on OS X. Does anyone have a guide on how to build DSFML for OS X, and produce .o or .a files (the library types supported by dmd for Mac).

Thanks,
Matt.