When I try to compile a unittest on the following:

import std.stdio;
class A {
  int x = 42;
}

unittest {
  auto a1 = new A;
  assert (a1.x == 42);
  auto a2 = a1;
  a2.x = 100;
  assert (a1.x == 100);
}

I get the following:

patrick@patrick-desktop:~/d$ rdmd --main -unittest c.d
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
--- errorlevel 1
patrick@patrick-desktop:~/d$


I assume that I am missing something. But what?

On Sunday, March 24, 2013 01:03:40 Patrick Tinkham wrote:
> When I try to compile a unittest on the following:
> 
> import std.stdio;
> class A {
>    int x = 42;
> }
> 
> unittest {
>    auto a1 = new A;
>    assert (a1.x == 42);
>    auto a2 = a1;
>    a2.x = 100;
>    assert (a1.x == 100);
> }
> 
> I get the following:
> 
> patrick@patrick-desktop:~/d$ rdmd --main -unittest c.d
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurl
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> --- errorlevel 1
> patrick@patrick-desktop:~/d$
> 
> 
> I assume that I am missing something. But what?

That's a linker error telling you that the linker can't find libcurl, which means that you haven't installed curl or that it's not installed somewhere where the linker looks. Given that curl is something that should normally be installed on a Linux box and would be installed by the system's package manager, my guess is that you don't have curl installed - or that if you do, you don't have the devel package installed (if your distro has separate devel packages).

- Jonathan m Davis

On Sunday, 24 March 2013 at 01:56:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, March 24, 2013 01:03:40 Patrick Tinkham wrote:
>> When I try to compile a unittest on the following:
>> 
>> import std.stdio;
>> class A {
>>    int x = 42;
>> }
>> 
>> unittest {
>>    auto a1 = new A;
>>    assert (a1.x == 42);
>>    auto a2 = a1;
>>    a2.x = 100;
>>    assert (a1.x == 100);
>> }
>> 
>> I get the following:
>> 
>> patrick@patrick-desktop:~/d$ rdmd --main -unittest c.d
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurl
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> --- errorlevel 1
>> patrick@patrick-desktop:~/d$
>> 
>> 
>> I assume that I am missing something. But what?
>
> That's a linker error telling you that the linker can't find libcurl, which
> means that you haven't installed curl or that it's not installed somewhere
> where the linker looks. Given that curl is something that should normally be
> installed on a Linux box and would be installed by the system's package
> manager, my guess is that you don't have curl installed - or that if you do,
> you don't have the devel package installed (if your distro has separate devel
> packages).
>
> - Jonathan m Davis

That fixed it. Thank you so much! (And apologies for posting in the wrong thread earlier)