I downloaded the script and made it executable. I also have dub on `/usr/bin/dub` . The example just stalls with no output. After fidgeting around for 5 minutes I realized it was downloading silently in the background. (I think for homepage examples, they should be running in verbose mode as this is probably the first touchpoint for a new D user)

Now, i have this error:

$ ./webserver.d
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lssl
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lcrypto
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Error: /usr/bin/gcc failed with status: 1
/usr/bin/ldc2 failed with exit code 1.

System: Ubuntu 18.04

Should dub take care of those for installation? Or, maybe the example is best run with a docker image of dmd/ldc compiler.

On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 20:17:35 UTC, AN wrote:
> I downloaded the script and made it executable. I also have dub on `/usr/bin/dub` . The example just stalls with no output. After fidgeting around for 5 minutes I realized it was downloading silently in the background. (I think for homepage examples, they should be running in verbose mode as this is probably the first touchpoint for a new D user)
>
> Now, i have this error:
>
> $ ./webserver.d
> /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lssl
> /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lcrypto
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> Error: /usr/bin/gcc failed with status: 1
> /usr/bin/ldc2 failed with exit code 1.
>
> System: Ubuntu 18.04
>
> Should dub take care of those for installation? Or, maybe the example is best run with a docker image of dmd/ldc compiler.

You need the libssl-dev package installed first, it contains the libraries that ld is complaining it can't find. As far as I know that's not within dub's scope to worry about.

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 20:28:55 UTC, Chris M. wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 20:17:35 UTC, AN wrote:
>> I downloaded the script and made it executable. I also have dub on `/usr/bin/dub` . The example just stalls with no output. After fidgeting around for 5 minutes I realized it was downloading silently in the background. (I think for homepage examples, they should be running in verbose mode as this is probably the first touchpoint for a new D user)
>>
>> Now, i have this error:
>>
>> $ ./webserver.d
>> /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lssl
>> /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lcrypto
>> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>> Error: /usr/bin/gcc failed with status: 1
>> /usr/bin/ldc2 failed with exit code 1.
>>
>> System: Ubuntu 18.04
>>
>> Should dub take care of those for installation? Or, maybe the example is best run with a docker image of dmd/ldc compiler.
>
> You need the libssl-dev package installed first, it contains the libraries that ld is complaining it can't find. As far as I know that's not within dub's scope to worry about.
>
> sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

Then don't you think these thing should be mentioned with the examples? It looks very bad(and is, since it wastes peoples time) to give an example that has dependencies and they are not mentioned, nor is the method to make it all work).

On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 20:37:04 UTC, Everlast wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 20:28:55 UTC, Chris M. wrote:
>> On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 20:17:35 UTC, AN wrote:
>>> I downloaded the script and made it executable. I also have dub on `/usr/bin/dub` . The example just stalls with no output. After fidgeting around for 5 minutes I realized it was downloading silently in the background. (I think for homepage examples, they should be running in verbose mode as this is probably the first touchpoint for a new D user)
>>>
>>> Now, i have this error:
>>>
>>> $ ./webserver.d
>>> /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lssl
>>> /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: cannot find -lcrypto
>>> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>>> Error: /usr/bin/gcc failed with status: 1
>>> /usr/bin/ldc2 failed with exit code 1.
>>>
>>> System: Ubuntu 18.04
>>>
>>> Should dub take care of those for installation? Or, maybe the example is best run with a docker image of dmd/ldc compiler.
>>
>> You need the libssl-dev package installed first, it contains the libraries that ld is complaining it can't find. As far as I know that's not within dub's scope to worry about.
>>
>> sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
>
> Then don't you think these thing should be mentioned with the examples? It looks very bad(and is, since it wastes peoples time) to give an example that has dependencies and they are not mentioned, nor is the method to make it all work).

You can add that mention. Post the PR link here.

Those linker errors are easy to Google. OpenSSL is a basic building block for major OSes, not like it requires some obscure stupid dependency.

Dlang is not Basic nor PHP, don't wanna sound like a precious little prick, but some things just need to be said!