Issue: Installing D

[Jacob Carlborg]

Chris Miller wrote:
> 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;
> 

I think you have an old version of tango where they haven't changed to 
fromStringz yet. As far as I know Tango 0.99.5 hasn't been released yet 
but I've heard it will be soon. You can download the svn trunk, I 
usually don't recompile the library I just replace the source files, I 
think it should be enough.