How do you actually run the "Start a minimal webserver" example on the home page

Everlast Everlast at For.Ever
Sat Aug 25 20:37:04 UTC 2018


On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 20:28:55 UTC, Chris M. wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 20:17:35 UTC, AN wrote:
>> I downloaded the script and made it executable. I also have 
>> dub on `/usr/bin/dub` . The example just stalls with no 
>> output. After fidgeting around for 5 minutes I realized it was 
>> downloading silently in the background. (I think for homepage 
>> examples, they should be running in verbose mode as this is 
>> probably the first touchpoint for a new D user)
>>
>> Now, i have this error:
>>
>> $ ./webserver.d
>> /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lssl
>> /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lcrypto
>> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>> Error: /usr/bin/gcc failed with status: 1
>> /usr/bin/ldc2 failed with exit code 1.
>>
>> System: Ubuntu 18.04
>>
>> Should dub take care of those for installation? Or, maybe the 
>> example is best run with a docker image of dmd/ldc compiler.
>
> You need the libssl-dev package installed first, it contains 
> the libraries that ld is complaining it can't find. As far as I 
> know that's not within dub's scope to worry about.
>
> sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

Then don't you think these thing should be mentioned with the 
examples? It looks very bad(and is, since it wastes peoples time) 
to give an example that has dependencies and they are not 
mentioned, nor is the method to make it all work).




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