Cannot find -lphobos

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On Sunday, 10 May 2015 at 14:41:17 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 05/10/2015 12:45 AM, Marko Grdinic wrote:
>> I works just fine on Windows, but I am having difficulty 
>> figuring out
>> what the trouble is on my Bodhi 1.4 Virtual Box. I've followed 
>> the
>> instruction on the Codeblocks Wiki and set the parameters, but 
>> when I
>> try to compile, it complains that it can't find Phobos.
>>
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lphobos2
>>
>> I've checked the search directories and the library 
>> directories are
>> where it says they would be. I am not particularly familiar 
>> with Linux
>> so I am not sure how to proceed from here.
>>
>> Any advice?
>
> dmd's -v flag may give some clues:
>
>   $ dmd foo.d -v
>
> dmd outputs the config file that it uses and the linker flags 
> that it passes.
>
> Ali

additionally if not using dmd it may have the libraries named 
differently.
a quick google says Bodhi linux is based on Ubuntu which doesn't 
ship dmd due to licensing issues AFAIK.