Hello, I'd appreciate any help.

I downloaded the GtkD sources and built the GtkD.lib using rdmd, so far so good. I have followed the instructions in "Installing on Windows" (editing sc.ini and copying contents of the src folder of GtkD into DMD's src folder, etc.). I also installed the Gtk 3.8.1 version (x86 and x86-64).

When I tried to compile the simple Hello world type of application, I got about 7 "undefined symbols" and it refused to compile. So I poked around and added "GtkD.lib" into the Library Files section in project settings (I'm using Visual D). Now it did compile, but I get an exception in KernelBase.dll.

At this point, I just don't know what to do next. Could someone help, please?

Below is the Hello World GtkD-style application that I tried:

module main;

import std.stdio;

import gtk.Main;
import gtk.MainWindow;

void main(string[] args)
{
	Main.init(args);

	MainWindow window = new MainWindow("A Window");

	window.showAll();
	Main.run();	
}

On 06/10/2013 04:51 PM, Daemon wrote:
> Hello, I'd appreciate any help.
>
> I downloaded the GtkD sources and built the GtkD.lib using rdmd, so far
> so good. I have followed the instructions in "Installing on Windows"
> (editing sc.ini and copying contents of the src folder of GtkD into
> DMD's src folder, etc.). I also installed the Gtk 3.8.1 version (x86 and
> x86-64).
>
> When I tried to compile the simple Hello world type of application, I
> got about 7 "undefined symbols" and it refused to compile. So I poked
> around and added "GtkD.lib" into the Library Files section in project
> settings (I'm using Visual D). Now it did compile, but I get an
> exception in KernelBase.dll.
>
> At this point, I just don't know what to do next. Could someone help,
> please?
>
> Below is the Hello World GtkD-style application that I tried:

Do you get any error messages?

-- 
Mike Wey

> Do you get any error messages?

None that I know of. It compiles and starts to launch, then just throws an exception.

I've been checking stack overflow and some blogs and kept trying various things. I finally managed to launch it normally. For anyone who might have had the same problem, the solution is to pass "-L-lgtkd -L-ldl" to the command line.

Project -> Properties -> Command Line -> Additional Options.

On 06/11/2013 03:33 PM, Daemon wrote:
> I've been checking stack overflow and some blogs and kept trying various
> things. I finally managed to launch it normally. For anyone who might
> have had the same problem, the solution is to pass "-L-lgtkd -L-ldl" to
> the command line.
>
> Project -> Properties -> Command Line -> Additional Options.

I don't know your setup but you should usually get some linker error when not linking against the gtkd libraries.

Also your first post whould suggest you are using Windows while -L-ldl would link in the Linux dynamic linker.

-- 
Mike Wey

> I don't know your setup but you should usually get some linker error when not linking against the gtkd libraries.
>
> Also your first post whould suggest you are using Windows while -L-ldl would link in the Linux dynamic linker.

I am using Windows, but adding those thingamajigs still solves the problem. And I didn't get any errors whatsoever (they should be in the Error List, right?).