DMD on x86_64

[Jesse Phillips]

Robert Clipsham wrote:

> I've been wanting to try D2 properly for a while now, but as I use linux 
> x86-64 I've had to resort to using a virtual machine, which is really 
> off putting when I just want to play around with it. I've read multiple 
> threads about getting dmd working with a multilib system, but I still 
> can't get it working, here's what I've tried:

These instructions should work, I haven't tested but others say they
work:

http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?D__Tutorial/StartingWithD/Compiler/DMD#AMD64

I had originally posted this question to SO and it gave me a better
understanding of what the issue were:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/856328/compiling-with-dmd-on-64bit-linux-or-linking-with-32bit-object-files

I found that after installing the proper -dev packages you don't need
to specify the linking format.