annotation Link
Overview
A lib
can be marked with @[Link(lib : String, *, ldflags : String, static : Bool, framework : String, pkg_config : String, wasm_import_module : String, dll : String)]
to declare the library that should be linked when compiling the program.
At least one of the lib, ldflags, framework arguments needs to be specified.
@[Link(ldflags: "-lpcre")]
will pass -lpcre
straight to the linker.
@[Link("pcre")]
will lookup for a shared library.
- will lookup
pcre
usingpkg-config
, if not found - will pass
-lpcre
to the linker.
@[Link("pcre", pkg_config: "libpcre")]
will lookup for a shared library.
- will lookup
libpcre
usingpkg-config
, if not found - will lookup
pcre
usingpkg-config
, if not found - will pass
-lpcre
to the linker.
@[Link(framework: "Cocoa")]
will pass -framework Cocoa
to the linker.
@[Link(dll: "gc.dll")]
will copy gc.dll
to any built program. The DLL name
must use .dll
as its file extension and cannot contain any directory
separators. The actual DLL is searched among CRYSTAL_LIBRARY_PATH
, the
compiler's own directory, and PATH
in that order; a warning is printed if
the DLL isn't found, although it might still run correctly if the DLLs are
available in other DLL search paths on the system.
When an -l
option is passed to the linker, it will lookup the libraries in
paths passed with the -L
option. Any paths in CRYSTAL_LIBRARY_PATH
are
added by default. Custom paths can be passed using ldflags
:
@[Link(ldflags: "-Lvendor/bin")]
.