On Thursday, August 19, 2010 06:52:33 Bob Cowdery wrote: > Hi > > Just trying to get started and need a little advice. First up was > selecting an IDE, tried a few and settled on Code::Blocks. I need > Windows and Linux and also C and D supported in the same IDE. The > support does not seem to be finished in Code::Blocks though, does it > really not have syntax highlighting for D or did I miss something. > > Anyhow it works well enough for now. First task was to build a test of D > calling C. Made the simplest possible C static library, one method > returns a string. Made the simplest possible D app which calls the C > method and prints the result. I built the C part and then referenced it > as a library in the D build. The D build goes with no errors and says it > has written the output file... but it doesn't, there is no output file. > > It says: > Linking console executable: bin\Release\DTest.exe > > Now I've tried this with just D code and it writes the output and runs > so I know something works. Does anyone know where to look, is it > Code::Blocks, compiler, stupidity (probably). > > Regards > Bob
My first question would be whether you used the same linker for both D and C. On Linux, they should both be using gcc. On Windows, they should both be using dmc. Still, I would have expected a linking error to be a bit more explosive than nothing. - Jonathan M Davis
