Jesse Phillips Wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:36:42 -0500, Chris Miller wrote:
> 
> > Jacob Carlborg Wrote:
> > 
> >> Chris Miller wrote:
> >> > Bill Baxter Wrote:
> >> > 
> >> >> Chris Miller wrote:
> >> >>> Chris Miller Wrote:
> >> >>> I attempted to install this stuff to a flash drive while at school.
> >> >>>  It didn't work on the derelict install.  I thought it was related
> >> >>> to the weird nature of the school machines, but when the error
> >> >>> happened again at home... I knew something was wrong.  During dsss
> >> >>> net install derelict this happens:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> .. lots of stuff we don't care about ... Exported revision 282. Creating imports for DerelictUtil
> >> >>>
> >> >>> derelict => DerelictUtil
> >> >>> + C:\dsss\bin\rebuild.exe -Idsss_imports\ -I. -S.\
> >> >>> -IC:\dsss\include\d -SC:\dsss \lib\  -IC:\dsss\include\d
> >> >>> -SC:\dsss\lib  -oqdsss_objs\D  -explicit -lib derelic
> >> >>> t\util\exception.d derelict\util\loader.d derelict\util\wintypes.d
> >> >>> derelict\util \wrapper.d -ofDerelictUtil.lib
> >> >>> derelict\util\wrapper.d(71): Error: undefined identifier
> >> >>> fromStringz derelict\util\wrapper.d(71): Error: function expected
> >> >>> before (), not fromStringz
> >> >>>  of type int
> >> >>> derelict\util\wrapper.d(71): Error: cannot implicitly convert
> >> >>> expression (fromSt ringz(cstr)) of type int to char[]
> >> >>> Command C:\dsss\bin\rebuild.exe returned with code 1, aborting.
> >> >>> Error: Command failed, aborting.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> It seems to be choking on the compile, screaming something about the source it's trying to compile in its final moments.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I have a few hypotheses:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> 1) Derelict isn't Tango-compatible.  Move back to Phobos, compile Derelict, move back to Tango. 2) The sources dsss downloaded don't compile anyways.  Manually check out a previous revision, or wait for someone to fix it.
> >> >> fromStringz is a function in the latest SVN of Tango. It called fromUtf8z in the 0.99.4 Tango "Frank" release.
> >> >>
> >> >> dsss net install generally downloads latest sources from dsource, so I suspect what happened is that SVN Derelict has been fixed to work with SVN tango, but you are using the release Tango.
> >> >>
> >> >> You can either get Tango from SVN and build it, Or you can maybe find a tarball of Derelict that's compatible with 0.99.4 tango and install that.
> >> > 
> >> > Hmm, I don't know.  The version file says it's a compatible version
> >> > (I think.)  It says version 0.995, which is >0.994, so it should work
> >> > (right?)
> >> > 
> >> > excerpt from Version.d:
> >> > 
> >> > module tango.core.Version;
> >> > 
> >> > public const Tango = 0.995f;
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> I think you have an old version of tango where they haven't changed to fromStringz yet. As far as I know Tango 0.99.5 hasn't been released yet but I've heard it will be soon. You can download the svn trunk, I usually don't recompile the library I just replace the source files, I think it should be enough.
> > 
> > I downloaded this: http://downloads.dsource.org/projects/tango/snapshots/tango-bin-win32-
> CURRENT-dmd.1.025.zip
> > Which is the fourth link down on this page:
> > http://dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/DmdDownloads Which I got to from
> > here:
> > http://dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/Download From the "Get Tango" box
> > here:
> > http://dsource.org/projects/tango
> > 
> > So you think it may be that that binaries aren't the right version, and that I should install Tango through DSSS?  Didn't someone say that installing Tango through DSSS was unreliable?
> > 
> > Furthermore, if I install Tango through DSSS (dsss net install tango), how will I force it to use the DSSS installation and not the Tango already in :\dmd?  Will the DSSS installation take precedence over the :\dmd version by default?  Should I change some configuration settings in :\dsss?
> > 
> > Getting scared and running back to Java isn't an option for me anymore, so you may be stuck with me ;)  After the Fibers in Tango I get real excited and thought "wow, this is the language for me!"  Fibers reminded me of the Python Generators I read about elsewhere.
> > 
> > Thanks for your help, hopefully we can figure out the problem and fix it.  At which point someone should update the page on Wiki4D or something...
> 
> I don't really have suggestions, couldn't exactly follow what was being asked or tried, but I'll see if I can explain some things.
> 
> DSSS builds against Phobos thus you can not install the Tango-dmd bundle and then compile DSSS.

I never tried building DSSS.

> "Furthermore, if I install Tango through DSSS (dsss net install tango), how will I force it to use the DSSS installation and not the Tango already in :\dmd?"

Wouldn't it build a version of Tango and stick that in \dsss\import or something?

> This question really has me lost, I think you have some misunderstanding. DSSS is a build tool that uses dmd, Tango is a run-time library for dmd to link in. Thus you should be able to use DSSS, Tango and DMD as one big happy family. I've never installed Tango with dsss netinstall nor have I installed either in windows.

I wouldn't suggest trying much of anything in Windows except for fdisk c:

I try to stick with Linux, but there does come a time when it's necessary to make it work on Windows.