LDC won't find ld linker -why?

[Dukc]

On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 at 23:15:38 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
> 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

Thanks, that worked, I needed ld.gold. There was a catch, 
however: one would think that `llvm8-gold` is the .rpm package in 
question, but installing it did change nothing. Good that you 
provided that link, otherwise I would never have quessed that I 
have to install `binutils-gold` instead.