Running dmd on ubuntu with AMD64

[Jason House]

Jason House wrote:
> Any further tips on getting rebuild/dsss to work?  I'm getting linker 
> errors.  I'm assuming dmd is generating a 32 bit executable and failing 
> to link with 64 bit libraries.  Can dmd generate a 64 bit executable? 
> I'm not sure how to configure it to do so.  I did try hacking at the 
> rebuild config files to see if I could get it to work (resulting file 
> below).
> 
> Can gdc do better?

gdc has an amd 64 binary release that works great.  No rebuild config 
changes required (besides telling /etc/rebuild/default to use 
gdc-posix).  There's a related thread from earlier this month that says 
dmd does not support 64 bit yet.