zig cc - lld-link: error: could not open '<file>.lib':

[benstigsen]

Tested with the following versions:

• Master e761e0a
• Stable 0.7.1

Operating System: Windows 10 19042

So, I just downloaded Zig, and I have this Raylib project.
This is what my project looks like:

main.c
main.h
include\
  raygui.h
  raylib.h
  ricons.h
lib\
  libraylib.a
  libraylibdll.a
  raylib.dll

When I run this with GCC it works:
gcc main.c -Iinclude/ -Llib/ -lraylib -lgdi32 -limm32 -lwinmm -o main.exe

When I run this with Zig, it does not:
zig cc main.c -Iinclude/ -Llib/ -lraylib -lgdi32 -limm32 -lwinmm -o main.exe

I tried adding the target like so:
zig cc main.c -target x86_64-windows-gnu -Iinclude/ -Llib/ -lraylib -lgdi32 -limm32 -lwinmm -o main.exe

But both of these result in the error lld-link: error: could not open 'raylib.lib': No such file or directory

[andrewrk]

This is what my project looks like:

That looks like a cygwin thing. Windows projects would look like this:

main.c
main.h
include\
  raygui.h
  raylib.h
  ricons.h
lib\
  raylib.lib
  raylib.dll

Generally (even for gcc) avoid using -l for static libraries. Just put the static libraries on the command line directly.

zig cc main.c -target x86_64-windows-gnu -Iinclude/ -Llib/ libraylib.a -lgdi32 -limm32 -lwinmm -o main.exe