Using DMD2 on Ubuntu 9.04 x64?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Trip Volpe" <mraccident at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:hk5p4f$2t2$1 at digitalmars.com...
>I installed the DMD2 compiler as per the instructions here: 
>http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/dmd-linux.html
>
> After tweaking the conf file to get it actually working, I tried compiling 
> a simple "hello, world" program. This was the result:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible 
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.3/../../../libpthread.so when searching 
> for -lpthread
> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible 
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.3/../../../libpthread.a when searching 
> for -lpthread
> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libpthread.so when searching 
> for -lpthread
> /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libpthread.a when searching 
> for -lpthread
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpthread
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> --- errorlevel 1
>
> Okay, so I'm guessing this has something to do with the fact that the DMD 
> compiler is 32-bit only, right? I already had to install the 32-bit 
> version of libstdc++ 6 to get it to run in the first place. Does this mean 
> that I need a 32-bit version of the pthread dev libraries? If so, I can't 
> find one in Synaptic. Is there some other place I can find such a thing?
>
> Has anybody else managed to get DMD2 up and running on Ubuntu? It _is_ 
> possible, right?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

I haven't gotten into D2 yet, but D1 (DMD) works fine on Ubuntu 9.04 for me.