Running dmd on ubuntu with AMD64

[Jason House]

Worked like a charm!  I'm surprised that wasn't on the ubuntu x86 64-bit 
forum.  Time to go make another post...

Frits van Bommel wrote:
> Jason House wrote:
>> I've discovered that the ubuntu linux distribution refuses to run 32 
>> bit applications out of the box.  Are there plans for releasing a 64 
>> bit version of dmd?  Is there anyone more experienced than me that has 
>> created a .deb (debian package) file that I can use?
>>
>> jhouse at server:~/dmd/bin$ ls -al dmd
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 jhouse jhouse 1009284 2007-03-26 00:45 dmd
>>
>> jhouse at server:~/dmd/bin$ ./dmd
>> -bash: ./dmd: No such file or directory
>>
>> jhouse at server:~/dmd/bin$ ldd dmd
>>         not a dynamic executable
>>
>> jhouse at server:~/dmd/bin$ file dmd
>> dmd: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for 
>> GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
> 
> Try installing the "ia32-libs" package.
> 
> Works just fine for me:
> =====
> urxae at urxae:~/opt/dmd/bin$ ls -l dmd
> -rwx------ 1 urxae urxae 1014564 2007-04-19 12:04 dmd
> urxae at urxae:~/opt/dmd/bin$ ./dmd | head -n 2     # to shorten the output
> Digital Mars D Compiler v1.013
> Copyright (c) 1999-2007 by Digital Mars written by Walter Bright
> urxae at urxae:~/opt/dmd/bin$ file dmd
> dmd: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for 
> GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 
> 2.2.5, stripped
> urxae at urxae:~/opt/dmd/bin$ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 6.10
> Release:        6.10
> Codename:       edgy
> urxae at urxae:~/opt/dmd/bin$ uname -m
> x86_64
> =====