On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 18:44:30 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: > I tried to run the example, and I'm struck with a linker error > DMD v2.076.1 and LDC 1.4.0. > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -levent > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -levent_pthreads Did you try installing libevent and libevent-pthreads?