Linkage runaround

[Steve Teale via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 13:17:04 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 3/26/15 8:37 AM, Steve Teale wrote:
>> If I link my DMD 2.066.1/ GtkD (latest version) app with 
>> static Phobos2
>> I get
>>
>> Linking executable: ../bin/Debug/compo
>> .../objdir/mainwin.o: In function
>> `_D4core7runtime7Runtime17__T11loadLibraryZ11loadLibraryFxAaZPv':
>> /usr/include/dmd/druntime/import/core/runtime.d:233: undefined 
>> reference
>> to `rt_loadLibrary'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>
>> If I change the link spec to use libphobos2.so, then the app 
>> links, and
>> runs, but it crashes the first time I try to read something 
>> from a file
>> with stream.File.readString.
>>
>> Does this ring a bell with anyone.
>
> It looks like you are missing a required library. Are you 
> linking with ld? If so, make sure you run dmd with -v to see 
> the link line it uses.
>
Telling the linker to use the dynamic linking so - on Ubuntu, 
that appears to be /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-linux.so.2 - makes no 
difference.
> -Steve