Friend and I have had our interest peaked by the language and are both trying to run on linux, windows and mac (less concerned with mac though).  But, I have run into a problem with getting dmd to work on my build.  I'm using the latest release of KUbuntu (7.10).

I've run through the tutorial on this site down to the last T: http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?HowToUbuntu

I can only run dmd as root, or i get the error:
main.d: module main cannot read file 'main.d'

And when I run dmd as root on main.d I get a compile complete: gcc main.o -o main -m32 -lphobos -lpthread -lm

and it makes a .o file and binary, but when i type: main to run the binary I doesn't recognize the command as a program...

Any help would be useful,
~E

> I can only run dmd as root, or i get the error:
> main.d: module main cannot read file 'main.d'

This is also the error you get when you run the compiler from a directory that is not the root of the source tree without the -I flag. Given that you only get it as root I would assume that it relates to the file permissions of your source file(s) and or the directories containing them.

> And when I run dmd as root on main.d I get a compile complete: gcc main.o -o main -m32 -lphobos -lpthread -lm
>
> and it makes a .o file and binary, but when i type: main to run the binary I doesn't recognize the command as a program...

This may or may not seem obvious but unless you have . in your PATH you may have to use ./main to execute your program. If this isn't your problem more information as to the error messages your are encountering might be useful.

Neil

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:24:22 +0900, Neil Vice wrote:

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> This is also the error you get when you run the compiler from a directory that is not the root of the source tree without the -I flag. Given that you only get it as root I would assume that it relates to the file permissions of your source file(s) and or the directories containing them.
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> This may or may not seem obvious but unless you have . in your PATH you may have to use ./main to execute your program. If this isn't your problem more information as to the error messages your are encountering might be useful.
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> Neil

To fix the 'root' problem, do:
sudo chmod +x dmd (in the dmd bin directory of course)

It is a permissions problem, and that'll fix it.

the ./main thing is right on target.  '.' (current directory) is not in
the path by default in (K)ubuntu.

So he either has to add it to the path (editing ~/.bashrc would work) or
just do './main' (or whatever the binary name instead of main).