Linking Trouble (Linux)

[Craig Dillabaugh]

On Thursday, 12 September 2013 at 20:26:29 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh
wrote:
> On Thursday, 12 September 2013 at 19:46:21 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh
> wrote:
>> I just upgraded my Linux distro (openSuse) and now when trying 
>> to
>> compile a project with dub I am getting linking errors.
>>
>> Compilation goes OK until the linking stage, when I get the
>> following:
>>
>> Linking...
>> dmd -of/home/craig/cloud/vibe-tiles/vibe
>> /home/craig/cloud/vibe-tiles/temp.o -L-levent_pthreads 
>> -L-levent
>> -L-lssl -L-lcrypto -g
>
> clip
>>
>> Strangely, libdl.so.2 and libz.so.1 are both there and 
>> libcrypto
>> is linked to them.
>>
> clip
>>
>> Craig
>
> OK, so I solved my compilation problem by passing the following
> as the linker command (added -L-ldl and -L-lz):
>
> dmd -of/home/craig/cloud/vibe-tiles/vibe
> /home/craig/cloud/vibe-tiles/temp.o -L-levent_pthreads -L-levent
> -L-lssl -L-ldl -L-lz -L-lcrypto -g
>
> How the GCC linker decides which libraries I need to explicitly
> specify is indeed a mystery to me.
>
> Craig

For anyone who runs into a similar problem using DUB the
following package.json files solves the problem:

{
	"name": "vibe",
	"description": "My first vibe project.",
	"homepage": "http://example.org",
	"copyright": "Me",
	"authors": [
		"Craig Dillabaugh"
	],
	"dependencies": {
		"vibe-d": "~master"
	},
	"libs": ["dl", "z"]
}