This stackoverflow question raises an interesting issue with linking order and dmd:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10095150/std-net-curl-linker-errors-in-linux I don't know if it's this way on Linux machines in general, but the OP had to link his program manually to be able to use std.curl. dmd appears to put the - L argument before any of its own linker arguments, and in this case, the linking argument for curl needs to go on the end. So, my question is whether dmd should be changed to put any -L arguments passed to it after the arguments that it passes to the linker itself. I'm far from an expert on this and am quite surprised that the order of arguments to the linker matters, but since it does, it seems to me that we should find the optimal order for dmd to use if we can, since it's not terribly user friendly to force people to call gcc or ld directly rather than using dmd to link just because they want to pass an argument to the linker. That's what the -L flag is supposed to be for. - Jonathan M Davis
