LDC won't find ld linker -why?

[Johan Engelen]

On Tuesday, 9 July 2019 at 15:25:17 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> I just downloaded ldc 1.15.0 for Linux from GH releases. 
> Testing it, it will make the object file out of a hello world 
> application, but then complain:
> ```
> collect2: fatal error: cannot find ‘ld’
> compilation terminated.
> ```

Run LDC with "-v" and check what the linker command is (somewhere 
at the bottom, LDC invokes `gcc` for linking). You might see 
something like `-Wl,-fuse-ld=...` in that gcc command line. 
Perhaps that ld.gold / ld.bfd is not installed and thus GCC 
complains that it cannot find it.
See e.g. 
https://askubuntu.com/questions/798453/collect2-fatal-error-cannot-find-ld-compilation-terminated

-Johan