Linker error from dub?

Stiff via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Mon Nov 16 07:15:58 PST 2015


On Thursday, 12 November 2015 at 06:11:37 UTC, BBasile wrote:
> On Thursday, 12 November 2015 at 06:03:49 UTC, BBasile wrote:
>> It worked fine because it was not used, not parsed, not 
>> linked. Maybe just the functions declarations was parsed to 
>> solve the symbols in the program, but since none was used the 
>> 'import blas.blas' was eliminated or something like that. This 
>> could be explained better by someone who knows well DMD 
>> architecture...
>
> I think that you would get an error with just the 'import 
> blas.blas' and building the debug config.
>
> I've spotted a std.expirmental.allocators bug this summer that 
> was revealed in by a similar scheme: extern declaration not 
> used in release mode, but in debug mode the symbols, even if 
> not used, were not eliminated and the compiler complained about 
> undefined symbol this & that !

It's been a few days, but I just wanted to say thanks for the 
help. I was able to fix the problem by linking to cblas in my 
dub.json.


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