Issue: Installing D

[Mike Parker]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Chris Miller wrote:
>> Chris Miller Wrote:
>>
>>> Jacob Carlborg Wrote:
>>>
>>>> Chris Miller wrote:
>>>>> I've been having some major issues for a long while now trying to 
>>>>> install D.  Much of it is because of my library choices, but I 
>>>>> don't have a choice as to what libraries I need.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been working to try and get a working installation of D on my 
>>>>> Windows Vista workstation.  Whether it's DMD or GDC I don't really 
>>>>> care.  My biggest problem is that I need Tango, Derelect, and 
>>>>> DDBI.  I've totally given up on finding an IDE by now.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been following the instructions online to the letter (the ones 
>>>>> on digitalmars.com) and they keep throwing me grief.  The 
>>>>> DInstaller project hasn't been good, since it installs everything 
>>>>> to somewhere I can't find.  I got DSSS working once, which was 
>>>>> nice...  but then when I tried to build a helloworld.d file it 
>>>>> didn't work (tried using rebuild, which is what I would be building 
>>>>> larger projects with).
>>>>>
>>>>> I can provide further documentation of what I've tried if you like, 
>>>>> though it's really just me hitting wall after wall after wall.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your time, and thanks in advance for any pointers or 
>>>>> help you can give!
>>>> I have previously written two installation guides
>>>>
>>>> D, DSSS, Tango and Derelict - 
>>>> http://www.gravitygame.se/denvironment.rhtml
>>> That's exactly the kind of tutorial I've been looking for!
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I'm not at my workstation (using my Ubuntu Linux laptop 
>>> ATM) so I'll have to take another whack at this when I get home.
>>
>> 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.
> 
> --bb

I recently, as in a week or so ago, updated the Derelict trunk with a 
fix that allows it to work with both the current Tango release and the 
current trunk. I tested 'dsss net install derelict' with the current 
Tango release (i.e. the one with fromUTF8z rather than fromStringz, 
which Crhis appears to be using) and it worked fine.

Chris, I suggest you uninstall Derelict (dsss uninstall derelict) and 
then pull it down again with a net install to make sure you have the 
latest trunk.