I am getting an error when I try and compile anything with the GDC compiler which is coming up associated with source code within a D include file which is not one of mine

I am using a Raspberry Pi with Ubuntu 16.04 and have just done an "apt-get install gdc". Using ldc works fine.

The error is :
root@raspberrypi:~#   gdc mac_hex.d -O3 -frelease
/usr/include/d/core/stdc/config.d:58:3: error: static if conditional cannot be at global scope
   static if( (void*).sizeof > int.sizeof )
   ^


This file has
==
version(Windows)
    ...
else version( Posix )
{
  static if( (void*).sizeof > int.sizeof )
  {
    etc etc
==

It shows version
gdc --version
gdc (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.3.1-14ubuntu2) 5.3.1 20160413
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

So that is unfortunately really old and I would love to get a new package

Am Tue, 17 Jul 2018 04:51:04 +0000 schrieb Cecil Ward:

> I am getting an error when I try and compile anything with the GDC compiler which is coming up associated with source code within a D include file which is not one of mine
> 
> I am using a Raspberry Pi with Ubuntu 16.04 and have just done an "apt-get install gdc". Using ldc works fine.
> 
> The error is :
> root@raspberrypi:~#   gdc mac_hex.d -O3 -frelease
> /usr/include/d/core/stdc/config.d:58:3: error: static if conditional
> cannot be at global scope
>     static if( (void*).sizeof > int.sizeof )
>     ^

These files in /usr/include/d probably belong to the ldc package and therefore are not compatible with gdc. gdc automatically picks up files in /usr/include/d so this folder should not contain compiler-specific files.

I think this has been fixed in more recent ubuntu releases. For now you could uninstall ldc to see if this is really the problem.

-- 
Johannes