Building from source for ubuntu

[monarch_dodra]

On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 10:40:51 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, July 07, 2013 12:25:50 monarch_dodra wrote:
>> I'm building a nix environment for dmd, and am having problems
>> buiding dmd from source on it.
>> 
>> I'm following the instructions on the wiki:
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD
>> 
>> The first thing I've run into seems that the X64 instructions 
>> are
>> out of date? it says to do "make -f posix.mak MODEL=64", but 
>> that
>> doesn't seem to do anything...
>> Anyways, that's just minor detail.
>
> make -f posix MODEL=64
>
> is correct.

Indeed. Looks like I got confused with the message "no cpu 
specified, assuming X86"

>> I'm hitting a wall at building phobos, because of curl:
>> make -f posix.mak DMD=../dmd/src/dmd
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurl
>> 
>> I've isntalled curl via apt-get ("sudo apt-get curl"), and it
>> seems to be installed. Just not in ld:
>> which curl
>> /usr/bin/curl
>> cd /usr/bin/ld
>> bash: cd: /usr/bin/ld: Not a directory
>> 
>> Bit of help on either of these two isues? Then I'll update the
>> wiki.
>
> I don't use Ubuntu, but my guess is that it has a separate 
> package (probably
> with devel in the name) which includes the static lib. Many 
> distros don't
> include all of the stuff required to build against a library in 
> the main
> package for a library - just the stuff required to dynamically 
> link against it.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Hum... Well, I'm not used to doing this. Time for more googlin' I 
guess :/