Cannot find libphobos2.a ?

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:29:26 +0700, Andre Tampubolon wrote:

> I just successfully built dmd, druntime, and phobos from the git tree.
> 
> Later I tried using this command to build a simple D program, and
> failed: ~/Digital-Mars/dmd/src/dmd -I~/Digital-Mars/druntime/import
> -I~/DigitalMars/phobos
> -L-L~/Digital-Mars/phobos/generated/linux/release/32/lib/libphobos2.a
> test.d
> 
> The error is:
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> --- errorlevel 1
> 
> Yet it's obvious that libphobos2.a is in
> ~/Digital-Mars/phobos/generated/linux/release/32. But if I didn't use
> the linker flag, and instead put libphobos2.a in /usr/lib, that command
> would work.
> 
> So how to use specify the linker flag correctly?

I think the -L option should only be used to specify a directory in which 
to search for libraries, while you put the full path to the library 
there.  DMD already knows it should look for a file named libphobos2.a, 
so try

  -L-L~/Digital-Mars/phobos/generated/linux/release/32/lib

Lars