{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues/687","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues/687/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues/687/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues/687/events","html_url":"https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues/687","id":107141583,"number":687,"title":"Static lib as extension .a with LDC and MSVC toolchain","user":{"login":"redstar","id":827859,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/827859?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/redstar","html_url":"https://github.com/redstar","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/redstar/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/redstar/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/redstar/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/redstar/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/redstar/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/redstar/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/redstar/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/redstar/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/redstar/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-09-18T06:30:32Z","updated_at":"2015-09-18T06:53:22Z","closed_at":"2015-09-18T06:53:22Z","body":"As LDC for Win64 with MSVC toolchain is maturing I noticed the following: a static library is named with the Unix conventions: a `lib` prefix and a `.a` extension.\r\nThis is the right thing if the target is MinGW32 but not for the MSVC toolchain. Here I expect the same as for DMD: no `lib` prefix and a `.lib` extension.\r\nI admit that I have no clue how dub can distinguish between ldc targeting MinGW and ldc targeting MSVC toolchain."}}