error when attempting unittest

[Patrick Tinkham]

On Sunday, 24 March 2013 at 01:56:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, March 24, 2013 01:03:40 Patrick Tinkham wrote:
>> When I try to compile a unittest on the following:
>> 
>> import std.stdio;
>> class A {
>>    int x = 42;
>> }
>> 
>> unittest {
>>    auto a1 = new A;
>>    assert (a1.x == 42);
>>    auto a2 = a1;
>>    a2.x = 100;
>>    assert (a1.x == 100);
>> }
>> 
>> I get the following:
>> 
>> patrick at patrick-desktop:~/d$ rdmd --main -unittest c.d
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurl
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> --- errorlevel 1
>> patrick at patrick-desktop:~/d$
>> 
>> 
>> I assume that I am missing something. But what?
>
> That's a linker error telling you that the linker can't find 
> libcurl, which
> means that you haven't installed curl or that it's not 
> installed somewhere
> where the linker looks. Given that curl is something that 
> should normally be
> installed on a Linux box and would be installed by the system's 
> package
> manager, my guess is that you don't have curl installed - or 
> that if you do,
> you don't have the devel package installed (if your distro has 
> separate devel
> packages).
>
> - Jonathan m Davis

That fixed it. Thank you so much! (And apologies for posting in 
the wrong thread earlier)