Newbie GDC issues

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On Thursday, 5 September 2013 at 23:49:18 UTC, Ramon wrote:
> On D's, and in particular GDC's, way to conquer the world there 
> will evidently be many newbies to notice D, look at it, be 
> drawn to it (and be happily trapped).
>
> I am such a newbie and the idea behind this thread is to 
> collect all the issues, quirks and nuisances a newbie might 
> encounter.

That being said, Iain, could you please update this example of 
yours:

http://iainbuclaw.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/writing-a-linux-kernel-module-in-d/

It is a very interesting concept, if it works...

Using the git head gdc I have these errors:

$make VERBOSE=1
gdc -c dinterface.d -o dinterface.o
make -C /lib/modules/3.11.0-5-generic/build 
M=/home/user/kernelmodule CONFIG_HELLO=m MAKE_KBUILD=1 modules
make[1]: Entering directory 
`/usr/src/linux-headers-3.11.0-5-generic'
   LD [M]  /home/user/kernelmodule/hello.o
   Building modules, stage 2.
   MODPOST 1 modules
WARNING: could not find /home/user/kernelmodule/.dinterface.o.cmd 
for /home/user/kernelmodule/dinterface.o
WARNING: "_D3std3utf12UTFException7__ClassZ" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: 
"_D3std4conv21ConvOverflowException6__ctorMFAyaAyamZC3std4conv21ConvOverflowException" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: 
"_D6object9Exception6__ctorMFNaNbNfAyaAyamC6object9ThrowableZC9Exception" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_d_assert_msg" [/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] 
undefined!
WARNING: "_D3std5ascii7isDigitFNaNbNfwZb" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_d_arraycopy" [/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] 
undefined!
WARNING: "_D9Exception7__ClassZ" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: 
"_D3std3utf12UTFException6__ctorMFAyamAyamC6object9ThrowableZC3std3utf12UTFException" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_d_newclass" [/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] 
undefined!
WARNING: "_D4core6memory2GC6qallocFNaNbmkZS4core6memory8BlkInfo_" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_D3std4conv21ConvOverflowException7__ClassZ" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_D12TypeInfo_Aya6__initZ" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_D3std9exception7bailOutFNaNfAyamxAaZv" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_D3std4conv13ConvException7__ClassZ" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_Dmodule_ref" [/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] 
undefined!
WARNING: "_d_newitemT" [/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] 
undefined!
WARNING: "_D4core6memory2GC6extendFNaNbPvmmZm" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_D14TypeInfo_Array6__vtblZ" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_D3std6format15FormatException7__ClassZ" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_D3std6string9toStringzFNaNbAyaZPya" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: 
"_D3std4conv13ConvException6__ctorMFAyaAyamZC3std4conv13ConvException" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_D15TypeInfo_Struct6__vtblZ" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_d_assert" [/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: 
"_D3std6format15FormatException6__ctorMFAyaAyamC6object9ThrowableZC3std6format15FormatException" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_Unwind_Resume" [/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] 
undefined!
WARNING: "_d_arrayappendT" [/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] 
undefined!
WARNING: "_D11TypeInfo_Aa6__initZ" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_D3std4math7signbitFNaNbNeeZi" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_D3std3utf6encodeFNaNfKG4awZm" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_d_arraycatnT" [/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] 
undefined!
WARNING: "_d_throw" [/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_D3std3utf12isValidDcharFNaNbNfwZb" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_d_array_bounds" [/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] 
undefined!
WARNING: "_D16TypeInfo_Pointer6__vtblZ" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_D14TypeInfo_Const6__vtblZ" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_D3std6string12__ModuleInfoZ" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_D10TypeInfo_a6__initZ" 
[/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_d_arraycatT" [/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] 
undefined!
WARNING: "_adDupT" [/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] undefined!
WARNING: "_d_arraysetcapacity" [/home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko] 
undefined!
   CC      /home/user/kernelmodule/hello.mod.o
   LD [M]  /home/user/kernelmodule/hello.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/src/linux-headers-3.11.0-5-generic'

Should the Makefile be updated to not link in libraries?