D seems interesting, but...

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:32:30PM -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[...]
> In any case, I haven't been able to reproduce the problem you're seeing.
> I tried installing the package multiple times, upgrading the system
> libraries, etc., and everything still works for me, so I'm not sure what
> else to say. Seems like there must be some specific combination of
> libraries, system or otherwise, that makes dmd not work. Without being
> able to examine your environment, it's really hard to tell.
[...]

Funny, as soon as I said that, I manage to reproduce the same error
messages (though I can't say if it's exactly the problem you're seeing)
by compiling a file that doesn't define main(). In this case, I had a
hello.d with main() renamed to Main():

	import std.stdio;

	void Main() {
		writeln("haha");
	}

Running `dmd hello.d` produced a whole bunch of errors almost exactly
the same as what you're seeing.  Of course, I'm not sure this is exactly
the problem you have, as your code does have a correctly-spelled main()
(from what I can tell). But this may help find where the problem is.

On that note, here's an enhancement request for dmd: if a program is
missing main() for whatever reason, we really should have a more
user-friendly error message than the reams of encrypted Klingon from the
linker that almost nobody understands.


T

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