Issue: Installing D

[Chris Miller]

Bill Baxter Wrote:

> Chris Miller wrote:
> > Chris Miller Wrote:
> > I attempted to install this stuff to a flash drive while at school.  It didn't work on the derelict install.  I thought it was related to the weird nature of the school machines, but when the error happened again at home... I knew something was wrong.  During dsss net install derelict this happens:
> > 
> > .. lots of stuff we don't care about ...
> > Exported revision 282.
> > Creating imports for DerelictUtil
> > 
> > derelict => DerelictUtil
> > + C:\dsss\bin\rebuild.exe -Idsss_imports\ -I. -S.\ -IC:\dsss\include\d -SC:\dsss
> > \lib\  -IC:\dsss\include\d -SC:\dsss\lib  -oqdsss_objs\D  -explicit -lib derelic
> > t\util\exception.d derelict\util\loader.d derelict\util\wintypes.d derelict\util
> > \wrapper.d -ofDerelictUtil.lib
> > derelict\util\wrapper.d(71): Error: undefined identifier fromStringz
> > derelict\util\wrapper.d(71): Error: function expected before (), not fromStringz
> >  of type int
> > derelict\util\wrapper.d(71): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (fromSt
> > ringz(cstr)) of type int to char[]
> > Command C:\dsss\bin\rebuild.exe returned with code 1, aborting.
> > Error: Command failed, aborting.
> > 
> > It seems to be choking on the compile, screaming something about the source it's trying to compile in its final moments.
> > 
> > I have a few hypotheses:
> > 
> > 1) Derelict isn't Tango-compatible.  Move back to Phobos, compile Derelict, move back to Tango.
> > 2) The sources dsss downloaded don't compile anyways.  Manually check out a previous revision, or wait for someone to fix it.
> 
> fromStringz is a function in the latest SVN of Tango.
> It called fromUtf8z in the 0.99.4 Tango "Frank" release.
> 
> dsss net install generally downloads latest sources from dsource, so I 
> suspect what happened is that SVN Derelict has been fixed to work with 
> SVN tango, but you are using the release Tango.
> 
> You can either get Tango from SVN and build it,
> Or you can maybe find a tarball of Derelict that's compatible with 
> 0.99.4 tango and install that.

Hmm, I don't know.  The version file says it's a compatible version (I think.)  It says version 0.995, which is >0.994, so it should work (right?)

excerpt from Version.d:

module tango.core.Version;

public const Tango = 0.995f;