Link all DLLs in a folder with Premake5

I'm moving some Unity code into a VS2022 project to use a plugin. Since this code references many different Unity classes I need to link in the Unity's DLLs in my Unity install. This is all fine and dandy, but I wanted to generate the project with Premake5.

I've been searching around and while I can link specific DLLs in the folder by setting libdirs "my unity DLLs" followed by a link "UnityEditor.dll" it seems like link might not support wildcards in the way files does. Is there a way to instruct Premake5 to grab all the dlls without manually listing all of them (there are many) that I'm not aware of? I'd also be fine with a lua workaround to grab the file names from the folder as long as it's reasonably portable.

Here is my premake.lua for reference grabbing only the single UnityEditor.dll


local ROOT   = "../"
local SOURCE = ROOT.."Source/"
local BUILD  = ROOT.."Build/"

workspace "RELoad_CorePlugin"
    configurations { "Debug", "Release" }
    location (ROOT)
    dotnetframework "net6.0"

project "RELoad_Core"
    kind "SharedLib"
    language "C#"
    libdirs "C:/Program Files/Unity/2021.3.12f1/Editor/Data/Managed/UnityEngine/" -- hard coded for now
    links "UnityEditor.dll" 

    targetdir (ROOT.."Output")
    location (BUILD)
    files (SOURCE.."Core/**.cs")

Solution

It seems you want os.matchfiles

local dll_pattern = "C:/Program Files/Unity/2021.3.12f1/Editor/Data/Managed/UnityEngine/*.dll"
local fullpath_dlls = os.matchfiles(dll_pattern)
local dlls = table.translate(fullpath_dlls, path.getname)

links(dlls)