On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 19:35 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Friday 24 September 2010 18:25:47 Andy Elvey wrote:
Hi all -
I'm a first-timer here and very keen to get into some D coding!
Unfortunately, I have a problem. I've installed the one-click .deb
package from Digital Mars, but when I try to compile a very simple D
program, I get this message -
dmd -w -c hello.d (in directory: /home/andy/d_stuff)
Compilation failed.
object.d: Error: module object cannot read file 'object.d'
So, does anyone know what is causing this, and how it can be fixed?
It looks like the compiler is unable to find something.
Very many thanks in advance - bye for now -
- Andy
It sounds like your dmd.conf needs adjusting or like maybe you don't have on
at
all. It sets DFLAGS which tells the compiler where to find the source code
for
druntime and phobos as well as their libraries. The current default dmd.conf
is
A deb should be self-consistent and ensure that all dependencies are
installed. If a deb installs successfully and the compiler fails to
work out of the box with an error related to a component that was
installed by the deb, then the deb is broken.
If this is the case in this case then a blocking bug should be reported.
The following is therefore -- if it works at all, I haven't tried it :-)
-- a hack workaround and not a fix. Anyone following this route to make
things work should, quite rightly be expecting a new deb to be released
as a matter of urgency so that they do not need to put this workaround
in place.
[Environment]
dflags=...@p%/../../src/phobos -...@p%/../../src/druntime/import
-l...@p%/../lib
-L--export-dynamic
So, you either need to adjust the one that gets installed with the deb
package
or use your own in a place higher in the list of places to search for
dmd.conf.
Look here for the specifics: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/dmd-
linux.html#dmd_conf .
It perhaps should be noted that the deb is a 32-bit Ubuntu deb and so
may not work on Debian, or any Ubuntu other than the one compiled on
(i.e. Lucid, Karmic, etc.). Rather than fight with installing a 32-bit
deb on a 64-bit system, I just install the binary tarball -- but in my
personal store not into /usr which should only be installed to by debs.
Launchpad has a PPA facility that allows for creation of working debs
for all Ubuntu releases simply by uploading a release tarball and
pressing a button -- once configuration is complete. Might be worth
considering?
--
Russel.
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