How to build a package as application ?

[Les De Ridder]

On Tuesday, 2 July 2019 at 14:49:49 UTC, guiguidu60 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 July 2019 at 10:43:08 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 2 July 2019 at 08:50:36 UTC, guiguidu60 wrote:
>>> I'm a newbie with D language, and my first problem ever is:
>>>
>>> I have a hello world program build with DUB on Linux, but the 
>>> program as marked as "application/x-sharedlib" and not 
>>> "application/x-executable" (in properties of the file): so, I 
>>> can't able to execute the program from the file explorer 
>>> (need to do ./helloworld within a terminal).
>>
>> Executable is automatically chosen if you have a source code 
>> file with name "app.d".
>> Otherwise set targetType to executable in your dub.json.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> André
>
> It doesn't work...
> Who decide if a file is an application or a sharedlib ?

What file manager are you using?

Could you perhaps upload an example binary that gets detected 
wrong?