I use
ldc2 main.d -L-lcurses
or
dmd main.d -L-lcurses
and following source code:
import std.stdio;
extern(C) int tgetnum(const(char) *id);
int main()
{
writeln(tgetnum("li"));
return 0;
}
Note that you don't need to apply toStringz to string literals
since they implicitly cast to const char*.