A valid code that won't run?

[cym13 via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 24 April 2015 at 17:26:03 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> On Friday, 24 April 2015 at 17:14:53 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
> wrote:
>> On 4/24/15 1:05 PM, cym13 wrote:
>>> $ dmd test.d
>>> /usr/lib/libphobos2.a(curl.o): In function
>>> `_D3std3net4curl4HTTP21_sharedStaticCtor1500FZv':
>>> (.text._D3std3net4curl4HTTP21_sharedStaticCtor1500FZv+0xf): 
>>> undefined
>>> reference to `curl_version_info'
>>> /usr/lib/libphobos2.a(curl.o): In function
>>> `_D3std3net4curl4Curl21_sharedStaticCtor1502FZv':
>>> (.text._D3std3net4curl4Curl21_sharedStaticCtor1502FZv+0xf): 
>>> undefined
>>> reference to `curl_global_init'
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> This is a sign you don't have libcurl available.
>
> You need to link against libcurl explicitly, it doesn't happen 
> automatically:
>
>     dmd -L-lcurl test.d

Nice to have a workarround but it would be much nicer if it did 
like ldc and gdc that linked didn't need explicit linking...