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[Derek Parnell]

On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:12:53 -0700, John Reimer wrote:

> Derek Parnell wrote:
>> On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:30:06 +1000, Hasan Aljudy 
>> <hasan.aljudy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> freud wrote:
>>>> why do i always get a "xx.d:module xx cannot read file xx.d" when i 
>>>> compile
>>>> xx.d?  i'm just beginning to learn the d language, anyone can help me ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Could be anything, but ..
>>> When it happens to me, it's because I'm using `build` and the module 
>>> name doesn't match the file name.
>> 
>> Well, I still can cause it to happen no matter method I choose. For 
>> example ...
>> 
>> ---- main.d ----
>> module xyzzy;
>> void main(){}
>> ------------------
>> 
>> build main.d is successful.
>> dmd main.d is successful.
>> 
>> --Derek Parnell
>> Melbourne, Australia
> 
> The error was showing up when I mistakenly tried to import a module like so:
> 
> --------------
> 
> module amod;
> 
> struct foo {}
> 
> --------------
> 
> module bmod;
> 
> private import Amod;
> 
> void main() {}
> 
> ---------------------
> 
> but this doesn't seem to produce the problem. It happened when I 
> imported a library module with the first letter capitalized, though the 
> actual module name was all lower case.
> 
> I'm not sure which platform I was struggling with, but I think it was 
> windows.  I finally figured out that build was choking on the 
> recognition of the capital letter.

I believe that D is case-sensitive when it comes to module names. I know
that these translate into case-insensitive file names in Windows but
there's not much I can do about that, I guess.

-- 
Derek
(skype: derek.j.parnell)
Melbourne, Australia
"Down with mediocrity!"
3/07/2006 10:16:49 AM