== Quote from Jonathan M Davis (jmdavisp...@gmx.com)'s article > On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 07:57:07 Brian Brady wrote: > > All > > > > I am having a problem compiling a simple program when working through "The D > > Programming Language". The program is like so: > > > > #!/usr/bin/rdmd > > > > import std.stdio, std.string; > > > > void main() > > { > > //Compute counts > > uint[string] freqs; > > foreach(line; stdin.byLine()) > > { > > foreach(word; split(strip(line))) > > { > > ++freqs[word.idup]; > > } > > } > > > > //Prints count > > foreach(key, value; freqs) > > { > > writefln("%6u\t%s", value, key); > > } > > } > > > > but this is the error I get when running it. > > > > brian@brians-tower:~/Programming/D$ ./readingHamlet.d > > object.d: Error: module object is in file 'object.d' which cannot be read > > import path[0] = . > > Failed: dmd -v -o- './readingHamlet.d' -I'.' >./readingHamlet.d.deps > > > > I feel its probably something to do with the way I have installed/compiled > > the library but I'm at the end of my current knowledge in how to fix this. > > Any idea on where I should be looking/what I should be looking for? I have > > been following the various advices on how to install the library correctly, > > but feel I may have gotten myself into more trouble doing this now. > It means that it can't find the source code for druntime. Likely, your > dmd.conf > is messed up or it's in the wrong place. There should be a dmd.conf file next > to the dmd binary. It defaults to something like this > [Environment] > DFLAGS=-I%@P%/../../src/phobos -I%@P%/../../src/druntime/import -L- > L%@P%/../lib64 -L-L%@P%/../lib32 -L--no-warn-search-mismatch -L--export- > dynamic -L-lrt > Assuming that you just unzipped the zip file and used that, then everything > should be in the right place. Presumably, the same goes for the deb or rpm > packages if you used those. If you moved any of it around yourself, then > you're probably going to have to make sure that you have dmd.conf next to the > dmd binary and that it actually sets DFLAGS such that it points to where the > source for druntime and Phobos is as well as where libphobos.a is. > - Jonathan M Davis
Ah yes, that makes sense. I just needed to change the #!/usr/bin/rdmd to where my library was ie. #!/home/brian/dmd2/linux/bin64/dmd which, now that I look at it, makes a lot more sense! Different errors now \o/ Thank you.