If there are still people out there who are struggling with this, I have just gone through the process on Ubuntu, and made some notes as a result.

They can be found at http://britseyeview.com/software (most recent post).

Great, I'm going to try it on linux mint.
Too bad the makefile is for linux and I have to stick with dsss which is
practically abondoned.
I still don't get why
dmd -lib -O -release
-inline -I.. -I../../srcgl -I../../srcsv -I../../srcgda gtkD.d
completely fails, it spits out a 34 kb executable

I really don't know what you're doing.
Running 'make -f GNUmakefile -j' works flawlessly with dmd 2.054 and svn gtkD.

> Too bad the makefile is for linux and I have to stick with dsss which is
> practically abondoned.

See the similar thread in D.learn on how to compile your program with rdmd.

> I still don't get why
> dmd -lib -O -release
> -inline -I.. -I../../srcgl -I../../srcsv -I../../srcgda gtkD.d
> completely fails, it spits out a 34 kb executable

You told dmd to compile gtkD.d and that's what it did.

It was mainly a comment on what happened to me when I read the instructions.

I know from archive discussions that others have had similar problems.

Give me a break - I was trying to help!

> It was mainly a comment on what happened to me when I read the instructions.

It really shouldn't be necessary to edit those version()'s. They are still in the svn version and I compiled with vanilla 2.054 and it worked fine.
So I guess it is caused by your dmd package somehow.

> Give me a break - I was trying to help!

No offense.