I have tried several times to compile tkd using dub but I keep getting this message:

Linking...
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltcl
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltk
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
--- errorlevel 1
FAIL .dub/build/application-debug-linux.posix-x86-dmd_2068-4989C12BA459945625492BF92EAC638A/ tkdapps executable
Error executing command run:
dmd failed with exit code 1.


I use Ubuntu 14.04 x32. Here is the dub.json file content

{
	"name": "tkdapps",
	"description": "A minimal D application.",
	"copyright": "Copyright © 2015, karabuta",
	"authors": ["karabuta"],
	"dependencies": {
		"tcltk": "8.6.5",
		"tkd": "1.1.4"
	}
}

Just incase, I have install version 8.6 of the Tcl/Tk libraries

What is the problem. And how is tcltk different from tkd in the first place?

On Tuesday, 15 September 2015 at 17:37:40 UTC, karabuta wrote:
> Just incase, I have install version 8.6 of the Tcl/Tk libraries

Did you get the development version?

sudo apt-get install tk-dev

or possibly

sudo apt-get install tk8.6-dev

should do it. I'm not actually sure if that's required for this (I've never used it) but it might be.

> What is the problem. And how is tcltk different from tkd in the first place?

tkd is just a D wrapper for the library.

On Tuesday, 15 September 2015 at 17:37:40 UTC, karabuta wrote:
> I have tried several times to compile tkd using dub but I keep getting this message:
>
> Linking...
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltcl
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltk

It looks like the libraries are not installed or not installed properly.

On Tuesday, 15 September 2015 at 17:46:42 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 September 2015 at 17:37:40 UTC, karabuta wrote:
>> Just incase, I have install version 8.6 of the Tcl/Tk libraries
>
> Did you get the development version?
>
> sudo apt-get install tk-dev
>
> or possibly
>
> sudo apt-get install tk8.6-dev
>
> should do it. I'm not actually sure if that's required for this (I've never used it) but it might be.
>
>> What is the problem. And how is tcltk different from tkd in the first place?
>
> tkd is just a D wrapper for the library.



Thanks Adam, sudo apt-get install tk-dev worked. Hurray! lets start GUI programming in D!