FreeBSD compile issue

[Tyler]

Thanks for the info. The issue is a FreeBSD 6.2 system that 
unfortunately can't be upgraded. Do you think it will run if it's 
compiled on an x86 FreeBSD 8.4 system and moved to the 6.2 system?

-Tyler

On Thursday, 27 March 2014 at 18:16:18 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 March 2014 at 14:29:25 UTC, Tyler wrote:
>> Hi,
>>   I need to compile a D program in FreeBSD. I've followed the 
>> FreeBSD instructions. So far, dmd is creating the obj file, 
>> but there appears to be a problem with the linker. The error 
>> messages are very cryptic. I was hoping someone might have an 
>> idea what they mean and what I'm doing wrong here.
>>
>> <CODE>
>> $ more hello.d
>> import std.stdio;
>>
>> int main(string[] args)
>> {
>>    writefln("Hello World\n");
>>        return 0;
>> }
>> $ uname -a
>> FreeBSD freebsd 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan  1 
>> 14:37:25 UTC 2009     
>> root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
> That is a very old FreeBSD release.  dmd from ports doesn't 
> even compile for anything less than FreeBSD 8.  I suggest you 
> at least upgrade to 7-stable, better another release branch 
> completely.