Compile Node addon with shared library on Windows

[jonathan-roy]

• Node Version: v10.15.1
• Platform: Windows 10 64 bits
• Compiler: 15.9.21.664

I need to compile a Node.js addon on Windows. The problem I have is that this addon relies on a shared library (libgeometry). I had no problem linking against libgeometry at compile time on Linux and MacOS, but I really don't know how to do this on Windows. I already have libgeometry.dll and libgeometry.dll.a available, but how do I link against it at compile time?

Here is my binding.gyp file, working on Linux and MacOS:

{
    "targets": [
        {
            "target_name": "test",
            "sources": [
                "src/test.cpp"
            ],
            "include_dirs": [
                "<!@(node -p \"require('node-addon-api').include\")",
                "<(module_root_dir)/native/include"
            ],
            "conditions": [
                ["OS in \"linux\"", {
                    "libraries": [
                        "-lgeometry",
                        "-L<(module_root_dir)/native/lib/linux/libgeometry",
                        "-Wl,-rpath,$$ORIGIN/../../native/lib/linux/libgeometry"
                    ],
                    "defines": [
                        "NAPI_CPP_EXCEPTIONS"
                    ]
                }],
                ["OS in \"mac\"", {
                    "libraries": [
                        "-lgeometry",
                        "-L<(module_root_dir)/native/lib/darwin/libgeometry",
                        "-Wl,-rpath,@loader_path/../../native/lib/darwin/libgeometry"
                    ],
                    "xcode_settings": {
                        "GCC_ENABLE_CPP_EXCEPTIONS": "YES",
                        "CLANG_CXX_LIBRARY": "libc++"
                    }
                }]
            ],
            "dependencies": ["<!(node -p \"require('node-addon-api').gyp\")"],
            "cflags": ["-fexceptions"],
            "cflags_cc": ["-fexceptions"],
            "msvs_settings": {
                "VCCLCompilerTool": {
                    "ExceptionHandling": 1
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

[petercoin]

If you have a .lib file, you can try this

'libraries': [ 
    '<(module_root_dir)/native/lib/darwin/libgeometry.lib'
],

If you have only dll file, you have to search this function: LoadLibrary().
Like this:Explicit Loading of DLL

[rvagg]

assuming this might be resolved by the above comment, closing due to staleness