DMD, Vibe.d, and Dub

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 07:08:32PM +0100, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-07-18 at 17:45 +0000, Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
> > Am Wed, 18 Jul 2018 13:29:00 +0100 schrieb Russel Winder:
> […]
> > > libssl installed but libssl-dev not. I can't quite see why the
> > > linker ld needs the development files, it just needs the shared
> > > objects to be present.
> > 
> > Debian moved the lib*.so => lib*.so.123version symlinks into the
> > -dev packages some time ago, so now you can't link without -dev
> > packages.
> > Not the smartest move imho....
> 
> I think I shall find it hard to discover a reason why you are wrong,
> but clearly the Debian devs in charge managed to.
[...]

Having been using Debian for almost two decades, the impression I get is
that generally -dev packages are required whenever you need to do
anything related to compiling, which includes linking to the library.

The only time you don't need -dev packages is when you're running an
already-compiled executable that's already linked with the library
(which is generally the case for end users who don't routinely compile &
link programs, hence this particular way of dividing -dev vs. non-dev
packages).


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