Getting started with vibe.d

[Chris Saunders via Digitalmars-d-learn]

I've made my first attempt to use dub/vibe.d and I'm running into 
some issues I can't find on the list.

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04/x86_64, using the latest stable dub (0.9.21). 
I can create a new dub project:

“””
$ dub init test vibe.d
Successfully created an empty project in 
'/home/csaunders/devel/csaunders/mongoSB/test'
“””

...but then I'm having trouble building:

“””
$ cd test
$ dub build --compiler=ldc2
vibe-d: ["vibe-d", "libevent", "openssl"]
test: ["test", "vibe-d", "libevent", "openssl"]
Building vibe-d configuration "libevent", build type debug.
FAIL 
../../../../.dub/packages/vibe-d-0.7.19/.dub/build/libevent-debug-linux.posix-x86_64-ldc2-0C180158569265198380A4CE65BB2C41 
vibe-d staticLibrary
Error executing command build: No LDC static libraries supported
“””

...I've tried a few variations on this but haven't had any luck. 
This is using the latest ldc:

“””
$ ldc2 --version
LDC - the LLVM D compiler (0.12.1):
   based on DMD v2.063.2 and LLVM 3.3.1
   Default target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
   Host CPU: corei7
   http://dlang.org - http://wiki.dlang.org/LDC

   Registered Targets:
     x86    - 32-bit X86: Pentium-Pro and above
     x86-64 - 64-bit X86: EM64T and AMD64
“””

Any pointers?