Help with DMD 1.00? - Dont know where else to post this

[Justin C Calvarese]

sylverpyro wrote:
> Sorry, but I could not figure out what group to post this to, so I went with the general one.
> 
> For some reason dmd 1.00 is giving me a lot of headaches.  
> 
> First off, there seems to be some sort of issue with the dmd.conf file.  The compiler seems to be able to locate the file (in /etc/ and in /dmd/bin) however, it seems to not read in the DFLAG arguements entierly.
> 
> For example,  when I try to compile a simple helloWorld.d program, when I go to compile it, it spits out:
> " object.d: module object cannot read file 'object.d' "
> 
> I did an strace, and the compiler found the dmd.conf file and opened it correctly and even read the line that contained:
> DFLAGS="-I/home/sylverpyro/Software/Linux/D/DMD/dmd1.00/dmd/src/phobos"
> 
> Next I attempted to set a bash env. variable DFLAGS with the same luck.  
> 
> Finally I attempted simply putting it on the command line and that finally worked ( bash~# dmd DFLAGS=-I/home/sylverpyro/Software/Linux/D/DMD/dmd1.00/dmd/src/phobos
>  helloWorld.d ).
> 
> Is this a wide spread issue or am I alone in this one?
> 
> One other issue that I have run across but so far have not found a solution for.  When compiling a program using std.boxer, the linker returns the following error message:
> 
> smUtil.o: In function `_D3std5boxer13__T5unboxTAaZ5unboxFS3std5boxer3BoxZAa':smUtil.d:(.gnu.linkonce.t_D3std5boxer13__T5unboxTAaZ5unboxFS3std5boxer3BoxZAa+0x16): undefined reference to `_D3std5boxer8__assertFiZv'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what the heck this means?
> Any help is appreciated.

I don't know anything about installing on Linux other than I've heard it 
can be tricky (I'm strictly a Windows user right now). There are some 
tips on a wiki page, but I don't know how helpful they are: 
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?D__Tutorial/InstallingDCompiler

I think that the final issue you reported is related to a known bug:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8

Fortunately, there seem to be some work-arounds: 
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DocComments/Phobos/StdBoxer

I hope some of this helps.

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jcc7