I am facing an issue compiling an hello world program using dmd v2.096.1 running on WSL2 debian.

I wrote the basic code:

void main() {
    import std.studio;
    string name ;
    write("What is your name?");
    readf("%s\n", &name);
    writeln("Hellow ", name);
}

This throws the following no compiling:

$ dmd hellow.d                                                21:16:13
hellow.d(2): Error: module `studio` is in file 'std/studio.d' which cannot be read
import path[0] = /usr/include/dmd/phobos
import path[1] = /usr/include/dmd/druntime/import

What is the process to follow here? Is this an permission issue ( since it says cannot be read ) or do I need to add any import statement for this to work?

PS: Not to get off-topic but is using WSL to learn DLang a bad idea to begin with? I am just getting used to WSL + VS Code and trying to stick to it when possible. cmd & powershell is just a headache for me to use.

On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 at 15:54:31 UTC, bharathyes wrote:

You have a typo in your code, std.studio instead of std.stdio.

On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 at 15:54:31 UTC, bharathyes wrote:

void main() {
    import std.studio;
    string name ;
    write("What is your name?");
    readf("%s\n", &name);
    writeln("Hellow ", name);
}

$ dmd hellow.d                                                21:16:13
hellow.d(2): Error: module `studio` is in file 'std/studio.d' which cannot be read
import path[0] = /usr/include/dmd/phobos
import path[1] = /usr/include/dmd/druntime/import

I think powershell is a Windows thing, which caused the path finding trouble. Your better in a Linux shell e.g. wsl -u root.

Can you directly use a console from debian? e.g start by clicking the app with the icon of Ubuntu.

On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 at 15:59:21 UTC, MoonlightSentinel wrote:

Thanks. I spent more than half hour searching for this error but never figured to check the spelling.

On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 at 16:15:55 UTC, mw wrote:

I am using debian directly ( through the Terminal Preview app or within VS Code ).

The recommended install script had me "activate" to use dmd and since that concept was out of my understanding, I re-installed dmd using apt. But it kept throwing that error and I just couldn't find a way to import paths. Turns out it was a typo as pointed above and now it just compiles and runs successfully.