I wanted to know how to compile a D program that has multiple source files. I looked under "Modules" in the language reference, but there isn't anything there about compilation, or anything about where to put the source files, or anything about how the compiler finds the files to use.
I'm currently using the GDC compiler, because I don't trust the DMD Debian package enough to install it, considering it has Google adsense ads in its HTML pages, which is against even Google's policy. I looked around the D Wiki for instructions on compilation, and it doesn't seem that there are any instructions other than for DMD on Windows and for compiling a hello world with one source file. The GDC site has no instructions or documentation on how to do compilation. The GDC man page is the same as the GDC info page. It lists some options for the compiler without listing what they do in the case of D. I'm not getting any .o or .a files out of the compiler, only a.out or whatever file name I choose with the -o option. I don't want to have to guess how to do it and experiment, as if it's all implementation defined and in flux to the degree that that's the only way to compile anything. If there aren't instructions or documentation on how to compile more than one file into a finished D runnable project in a correct way that can grow with larger projects, then I'll have to take it as implied that D is just not ready or not welcoming and I shouldn't use it.
