Hey,

just getting started with D. I wanted to try out Vibelog. However, when trying to run

dub run

I receive the error:

Failed to invoke the compiler dmd to determine the build platform: /bin/sh: dmd: command not found

I'm on OSX - El Capitan and installed dub over Homebrew.

Bests,
Timoses

On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 03:00:46 UTC, Timoses wrote:
> Hey,
>
> just getting started with D. I wanted to try out Vibelog. However, when trying to run
>
> dub run
>
> I receive the error:
>
> Failed to invoke the compiler dmd to determine the build platform: /bin/sh: dmd: command not found
>
> I'm on OSX - El Capitan and installed dub over Homebrew.
>
> Bests,
> Timoses

How did you install DMD?

On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 03:38:57 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> How did you install DMD?

I didn't : P. First hurdle taken. It now compiles.

However, I get a linking error:

Linking...
ld: library not found for -levent
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
--- errorlevel 1
dmd failed with exit code 1.

dub run -v

Linking...
dmd -of.dub/build/standalone-debug-posix.osx-x86_64-dmd_2068-4E2C9DFD17A7951AAA2F7856AB27FB45/vibelog .dub/build/standalone-debug-posix.osx-x86_64-dmd_2068-4E2C9DFD17A7951AAA2F7856AB27FB45/vibelog.o ../../.dub/packages/stringex-0.0.2/libstringex.a ../../.dub/packages/dyaml-0.5.2/libdyaml.a ../../.dub/packages/tinyendian-0.1.2/libtinyendian.a ../../.dub/packages/vibe-d-0.7.26-alpha.2/libvibe-d.a -L-levent -L-levent_pthreads -L-lssl -L-lcrypto -g
ld: library not found for -levent
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
--- errorlevel 1
FAIL .dub/build/standalone-debug-posix.osx-x86_64-dmd_2068-4E2C9DFD17A7951AAA2F7856AB27FB45/ vibelog executable
dmd failed with exit code 1.

On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 04:00:18 UTC, Timoses wrote:
> Linking...
> ld: library not found for -levent
> clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
> --- errorlevel 1
> dmd failed with exit code 1.

Seems to be fixed by editing dmd.conf (added -L-L/usr/local/lib)

[Environment]

DFLAGS=-I/Library/D/dmd/src/phobos -I/Library/D/dmd/src/druntime/import -L-L/Library/D/dmd/lib -L-L/usr/local/lib

Have a question though:
Why is it -L-L/usr/local/lib
and not -L/usr/local/lib ?

On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 05:33:08 UTC, Timoses wrote:
> On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 04:00:18 UTC, Timoses wrote:
>> Linking...
>> ld: library not found for -levent
>> clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
>> --- errorlevel 1
>> dmd failed with exit code 1.
>
> Seems to be fixed by editing dmd.conf (added -L-L/usr/local/lib)
>
> [Environment]
>
> DFLAGS=-I/Library/D/dmd/src/phobos -I/Library/D/dmd/src/druntime/import -L-L/Library/D/dmd/lib -L-L/usr/local/lib
>
> Have a question though:
> Why is it -L-L/usr/local/lib
> and not -L/usr/local/lib ?

DMD uses different linkers depending on the platform. For the compiler, -L means 'pass this command to the linker.' In this case, that just also happens to be -L, which is understood by ld (the system linker) as the flag to set the library path. If you were using the Microsoft linker on Windows, it would be -L/LIBPATH:dir. If you were manually linking with libevent on Mac or Linux, you would pass -L-levent, and so on.

On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 06:13:27 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> DMD uses different linkers depending on the platform. For the compiler, -L means 'pass this command to the linker.' In this case, that just also happens to be -L, which is understood by ld (the system linker) as the flag to set the library path. If you were using the Microsoft linker on Windows, it would be -L/LIBPATH:dir. If you were manually linking with libevent on Mac or Linux, you would pass -L-levent, and so on.

Cool! Thanks a lot!