Hello All,
I have been looking at D off and on for several years.
Initially I
worked through a very painful experience to get D compiling
on Linux.
After that experience, I concluded that I should wait for it
to become
more mature. Since then, I do a very simple test. I install
the latest
package and try to build "Hello World". I figure that if
"Hello World"
builds successfully, I will continue further. I have just
downloaded the
latest .deb package and installed it on Ubuntu 12.04 32bit.
Once again
it fails this incredibly simple test. I've read many
discussions about
how/why, has/hasn't, will/won't D hit the mainstream in
programming
languages. I think this situation may offer at least one
data point. I'm
struggling to think of any other language (and I use
several) that won't
build code out of the box. D seems to have a lot of
potential, but this
needs to be fixed. I am not asking for help on this. I
honestly don't
care what the solution is. I just wanted the D developers to
know why at
least one developer is not using the language. I sincerely
hope that the
situation will improve. I'm looking forward to programming
in D.
Thanks for your time,
-G
Here is the code:
import std.stdio;
void main()
{
writeln("Hello, world!");
}
Here is the command:
dmd hello.d
Here is the output:
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(dmain2_459_1a5.o): In
function
`_D2rt6dmain24mainUiPPaZi7runMainMFZv':
src/rt/dmain2.d:(.text._D2rt6dmain24mainUiPPaZi7runMainMFZv+0x10):
undefined reference to `_Dmain'
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(thread_18f_1b8.o): In
function
`_D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFZC4core6thread6Thread':
src/core/thread.d:(.text._D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFZC4core6thread6Thread+0x1d):
undefined reference to `_tlsend'
src/core/thread.d:(.text._D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFZC4core6thread6Thread+0x24):
undefined reference to `_tlsstart'
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(thread_19f_6e4.o): In
function
`thread_attachThis':
src/core/thread.d:(.text.thread_attachThis+0xb7): undefined
reference to
`_tlsstart'
src/core/thread.d:(.text.thread_attachThis+0xbc): undefined
reference to
`_tlsend'
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(thread_17d_1b8.o): In
function
`_D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFPFZvkZC4core6thread6Thread':
src/core/thread.d:(.text._D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFPFZvkZC4core6thread6Thread+0x1d):
undefined reference to `_tlsend'
src/core/thread.d:(.text._D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFPFZvkZC4core6thread6Thread+0x27):
undefined reference to `_tlsstart'
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(thread_17e_1b8.o): In
function
`_D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFDFZvkZC4core6thread6Thread':
src/core/thread.d:(.text._D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFDFZvkZC4core6thread6Thread+0x1d):
undefined reference to `_tlsend'
src/core/thread.d:(.text._D4core6thread6Thread6__ctorMFDFZvkZC4core6thread6Thread+0x27):
undefined reference to `_tlsstart'
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(deh2_43b_525.o): In
function
`_D2rt4deh213__eh_finddataFPvZPS2rt4deh29FuncTable':
src/rt/deh2.d:(.text._D2rt4deh213__eh_finddataFPvZPS2rt4deh29FuncTable+0x4):
undefined reference to `_deh_beg'
src/rt/deh2.d:(.text._D2rt4deh213__eh_finddataFPvZPS2rt4deh29FuncTable+0xc):
undefined reference to `_deh_beg'
src/rt/deh2.d:(.text._D2rt4deh213__eh_finddataFPvZPS2rt4deh29FuncTable+0x13):
undefined reference to `_deh_end'
src/rt/deh2.d:(.text._D2rt4deh213__eh_finddataFPvZPS2rt4deh29FuncTable+0x36):
undefined reference to `_deh_end'
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(thread_17a_713.o): In
function
`thread_entryPoint':
src/core/thread.d:(.text.thread_entryPoint+0x64): undefined
reference to
`_tlsend'
src/core/thread.d:(.text.thread_entryPoint+0x6a): undefined
reference to
`_tlsstart'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
--- errorlevel 1
