I'm having a problem with the DMD compiler but it seems I can't
post to the digitalmars.D.bugs thread for help, so I'm posting
here.
I'm getting the "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l:libphobos2.a" error
when I run dmd. I've looked at all the threads and tried
everything but nothing seems to have worked.
I downloaded dmd.2.065.0.zip to a redhat 64bit machine and
followed the installation instructions from
http://dlang.org/dmd-linux.html:
Unzip the archive into your home directory. It will create a
~/dmd directory with all the files in it. All the tools are
command line tools, which means they are run from a console
window.
Copy dmd.conf to /etc:
cp dmd2/linux/bin/dmd.conf /etc
Put dmd2/linux/bin on your PATH, or copy the linux
executables to /usr/local/bin
Copy the library to /usr/lib:
cp dmd2/linux/lib/libphobos2.a /usr/lib
I tried this with both the lib32 binaries and the lib64 binaries.
After I copied the dmd.conf to the /etc path I added the
absolute paths to the arguments like so:
[Environment32]
DFLAGS=-I/root/dmd2/src/phobos
-I/root/dmd2/src/druntime/import -L-L/root/dmd2/linux/lib32
-L--export-dynamic
[Environment64]
DFLAGS=-I/root/dmd2/src/phobos
-I/root/dmd2/src/druntime/import -L-L/root/dmd2/linux/lib64
-L--export-dynamic
I know the dmd.conf file is working because when I change this
file I see the results when I run dmd. However no matter what I
do I never get past the same error message:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l:libphobos2.a
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
--- errorlevel 1
I've tried:
1. Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH
2. Copying the libphobos2.a file to /lib, /usr/lib,
/usr/local/lib (the last one is the default in /etc/ld.so.conf)
3. Changing dmd.conf -L-L argument any which way I can (added a
colon, a space, tried other option letters)
After nothing worked I tried just changing my path instead.
export PATH=/root/dmd2/linux/bin64:$PATH
It then used the dmd.conf file in the unzipped directory (instead
of the one in /etc/dmd.conf) but it still didn't find
libphobos2.a.
I feel like I've tried everything, I'm at my wits end with this.
I'm running as root, the lib files are veiwable by everyone so
that's not the problem.
I tried running ld on the .o file created by dmd, but I'm not
sure what arguments dmd uses, if someone knows could you provide
me with the arguments and I can try running ld along (without
dmd).
