D seems interesting, but...

[deadalnix]

Le 15/10/2012 09:08, Gerry Weaver a écrit :
> On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 06:47:06 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Sunday, October 14, 2012 23:40:41 H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>> Funny, as soon as I said that, I manage to reproduce the same error
>>> messages (though I can't say if it's exactly the problem you're seeing)
>>> by compiling a file that doesn't define main(). In this case, I had a
>>> hello.d with main() renamed to Main():
>>
>> Yes. The error message that he's getting is essentially the one that
>> you get
>> when you don't define main, which is weird, because he _is_ defining
>> main. But I
>> don't know if it's exactly the same or not. A detailed comparison of
>> the error
>> messages that he's seeing and those that you get from not defining
>> main on a
>> machine that works would be required to see whether it's exactly the same
>> message or not.
>>
>> I'm surprised that you didn't recognize the errors immediately. I
>> guess that
>> you haven't missed main very often (I'm used to it primarily from
>> forgetting
>> main when throwing together quick test scripts). But I'm totally
>> stumped as to
>> why he'd be getting them, since he does appear to be declaring main
>> correctly.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> Hi,
>
> I decided to install the same distribution in a vm. This time instead of
> installing the .deb package, I went with the zip. Everything seems to be
> working! I can compile a non-trivial example just fine. I guess I'll
> definitely be using the zip from now on. Anyway, I also tried the zip
> version on Mac and Windoze. They both built the same code successfully.
> This is great! I can finally try out all of those great language
> features I've been reading about.
>
> Thanks to everyone for pushing me down the rabbit hole far enough this
> time to get some payback ;-) It's on now!
>
> Thanks,
> -G
>

I would definitively encourage you to try the .deb on a clean install. 
I'm pretty sure your old install is confused by old half installed D stuffs.