D seems interesting, but...

[Gerry Weaver]

Hello All,

I have been looking at D off and on for several years. Initially 
I worked through a very painful experience to get D compiling on 
Linux. After that experience, I concluded that I should wait for 
it to become more mature. Since then, I do a very simple test. I 
install the latest package and try to build "Hello World". I 
figure that if "Hello World" builds successfully, I will continue 
further. I have just downloaded the latest .deb package and 
installed it on Ubuntu 12.04 32bit. Once again it fails this 
incredibly simple test. I've read many discussions about how/why, 
has/hasn't, will/won't D hit the mainstream in programming 
languages. I think this situation may offer at least one data 
point. I'm struggling to think of any other language (and I use 
several) that won't build code out of the box. D seems to have a 
lot of potential, but this needs to be fixed. I am not asking for 
help on this. I honestly don't care what the solution is. I just 
wanted the D developers to know why at least one developer is not 
using the language. I sincerely hope that the situation will 
improve. I'm looking forward to programming in D.

Thanks for your time,
-G



Here is the code:

import std.stdio;


void main()
{
   writeln("Hello, world!");
}

Here is the command:

dmd hello.d

Here is the output:

/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(dmain2_459_1a5.o): In 
function `_D2rt6dmain24mainUiPPaZi7runMainMFZv':
src/rt/dmain2.d:(.text._D2rt6dmain24mainUiPPaZi7runMainMFZv+0x10): 
undefined reference to `_Dmain'
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(thread_18f_1b8.o): In 
function `_D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFZC4core6thread6Thread':
src/core/thread.d:(.text._D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFZC4core6thread6Thread+0x1d): 
undefined reference to `_tlsend'
src/core/thread.d:(.text._D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFZC4core6thread6Thread+0x24): 
undefined reference to `_tlsstart'
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(thread_19f_6e4.o): In 
function `thread_attachThis':
src/core/thread.d:(.text.thread_attachThis+0xb7): undefined 
reference to `_tlsstart'
src/core/thread.d:(.text.thread_attachThis+0xbc): undefined 
reference to `_tlsend'
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(thread_17d_1b8.o): In 
function 
`_D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFPFZvkZC4core6thread6Thread':
src/core/thread.d:(.text._D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFPFZvkZC4core6thread6Thread+0x1d): 
undefined reference to `_tlsend'
src/core/thread.d:(.text._D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFPFZvkZC4core6thread6Thread+0x27): 
undefined reference to `_tlsstart'
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(thread_17e_1b8.o): In 
function 
`_D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFDFZvkZC4core6thread6Thread':
src/core/thread.d:(.text._D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFDFZvkZC4core6thread6Thread+0x1d): 
undefined reference to `_tlsend'
src/core/thread.d:(.text._D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFDFZvkZC4core6thread6Thread+0x27): 
undefined reference to `_tlsstart'
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(deh2_43b_525.o): In function 
`_D2rt4deh213__eh_finddataFPvZPS2rt4deh29FuncTable':
src/rt/deh2.d:(.text._D2rt4deh213__eh_finddataFPvZPS2rt4deh29FuncTable+0x4): 
undefined reference to `_deh_beg'
src/rt/deh2.d:(.text._D2rt4deh213__eh_finddataFPvZPS2rt4deh29FuncTable+0xc): 
undefined reference to `_deh_beg'
src/rt/deh2.d:(.text._D2rt4deh213__eh_finddataFPvZPS2rt4deh29FuncTable+0x13): 
undefined reference to `_deh_end'
src/rt/deh2.d:(.text._D2rt4deh213__eh_finddataFPvZPS2rt4deh29FuncTable+0x36): 
undefined reference to `_deh_end'
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(thread_17a_713.o): In 
function `thread_entryPoint':
src/core/thread.d:(.text.thread_entryPoint+0x64): undefined 
reference to `_tlsend'
src/core/thread.d:(.text.thread_entryPoint+0x6a): undefined 
reference to `_tlsstart'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
--- errorlevel 1