more fun with ubuntu

[Jesse Phillips]

On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 05:01:10 UTC, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> I have a project here which fails on link on ubuntu 12.10.
>
> It give undefined reference errors for functions in libdl and 
> libutil. For some reason, ld won't cooperate unless you pass 
> -ldl -lutil at the end of the command string. Holy Ubuntu!
>
> I can't seem to get dmd to do this though. Any suggestions?
>
> I am using the beta, but apparently this is a thing with ubuntu.

It is not uncommon to request the libraries needed to build your 
app. Dmd passes a couple/one for phobos dependencies, but other 
libraries need to be reqested.