A valid code that won't run?

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 24 April 2015 at 19:34, cym13 via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Friday, 24 April 2015 at 17:26:03 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
>>
>> On Friday, 24 April 2015 at 17:14:53 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>>
>>> On 4/24/15 1:05 PM, cym13 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> $ dmd test.d
>>>> /usr/lib/libphobos2.a(curl.o): In function
>>>> `_D3std3net4curl4HTTP21_sharedStaticCtor1500FZv':
>>>> (.text._D3std3net4curl4HTTP21_sharedStaticCtor1500FZv+0xf): undefined
>>>> reference to `curl_version_info'
>>>> /usr/lib/libphobos2.a(curl.o): In function
>>>> `_D3std3net4curl4Curl21_sharedStaticCtor1502FZv':
>>>> (.text._D3std3net4curl4Curl21_sharedStaticCtor1502FZv+0xf): undefined
>>>> reference to `curl_global_init'
>>>
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> This is a sign you don't have libcurl available.
>>
>>
>> You need to link against libcurl explicitly, it doesn't happen
>> automatically:
>>
>>     dmd -L-lcurl test.d
>
>
> Nice to have a workarround but it would be much nicer if it did like ldc and
> gdc that linked didn't need explicit linking...


You need to explicitly link third party libraries.