GDC and Tango problem

[Michael P.]

revcompgeek Wrote:

> On 12/27/09 9:52 AM, Michael P. wrote:
> > revcompgeek at gmail.com Wrote:
> >
> >> So I tried building Tango trunk a while ago, and it actually built
> >> surprisingly well, with only one small error I was able to fix. So I
> >> installed the tango library and proceeded to test if tango was really
> >> working. So in hello.d:
> >>
> >> import tango.io.Stdout;
> >> void main(){ Stdout("Hello {}!","World").newline; }
> >>
> >> I don't know why, but I had to manually add object.d to the command
> >> line. To simplify, I put an object file of object.d into the current
> >> directory.
> >>
> >> tests% gdc -o hello hello.d object.o -lgtango -lgphobos
> >> ld: duplicate symbol __D6object9Interface6__initZ in
> >> /usr/local/lib/libgphobos.a(object.o) and object.o
> >> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >>
> >> I'm not sure if this problem is an issue with gdc or a problem with
> >> Tango. Any ideas on how to fix this?
> >
> > http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/UnixInstallGdc
> > Have you looked there?
> >
> Yes, that is the main page I used when I was trying to figure out how to 
> install Tango. As far as I can tell I did everything right. Like I said, 
> this could be a problem with the new version of Tango, possibly just 
> because the dmd frontend version isn't what Tango is set up for. 
> Unfortunately, the 0.99.8 release had a lot of problems with gdc, so I'm 
> just trying to get the trunk working.
> 
> Should I try posting this to the main digitalmars.D group?

Sure. You'll probably get much more answers there.