Debugging D shared libraries

[Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Am Tue, 22 Sep 2015 14:40:43 +0000
schrieb John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com>:

> On Tuesday, 22 September 2015 at 14:37:11 UTC, Russel Winder 
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2015-09-20 at 17:47 +0200, Johannes Pfau via 
> > Digitalmars-d -learn wrote:
> >> [...]
> > […]
> >> [...]
> >
> > Debian Jessie is far too out of date to be useful. I'm on 
> > Debian Sid
> > (still quite old), and Fedora Rawhide (not quite so old).
> >
> > Sadly GDC on Debian Sid tells me 5.2.1 20150911 which may well 
> > tell Iain which DMD is being used, but I haven't a clue. :-)
> >
> > […]
> >
> > The real problem using GDC is:
> >
> > gdc -I. -O3 -fPIC -c -o processAll_library_d.o 
> > processAll_library_d.d
> > /usr/include/d/core/stdc/config.d:28:3: error: static if 
> > conditional
> > cannot be at global scope
> >    static if( (void*).sizeof > int.sizeof )
> >    ^
> >
> > I haven't had chance to sit down and see if this is reasonable 
> > or not.
> 
> seeing as it's an error in core.stdc.config, I'd say it's 
> definitely not reasonable

It's indeed strange.
 
@Russel Winder if you can reproduce this with the latest GDC* please
file a bug report. Even the error message doesn't make sense: static if
works fine at global scope, AFAIK.

* you could use the latest binaries from http://gdcproject.org/downloads