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reply Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> writes:
Oh, look--it's me and something's not working again :P

Ok, I'm using dmd 0.153 and the included phobos.  When I try to compile
the following:

import std.boxer;
import std.stdio;

int main()
{
    Box x = box(42);
    writefln("The answer to life, the universe, "
            "and everything is: %d", unbox!(int)(x));

    return 0;
}

I get the following error message:

e:\Bin\Bin\link.exe boxtest,,,user32+kernel32/noi;
OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved

boxtest.obj(boxtest)
 Error 42: Symbol Undefined _assert_3std5boxer
--- errorlevel 1

Anyone have any idea what I stuffed up?  Other stuff, including
writefln, seems to work fine (well, apart from MinTL but we've already
covered that one), so I'm fairly sure it's linking in phobos.lib properly.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

	-- Daniel.

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Apr 13 2006
next sibling parent reply "Derek Parnell" <derek psych.ward> writes:
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:30:05 +1000, Daniel Keep  
<daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> wrote:


 Oh, look--it's me and something's not working again :P

 Ok, I'm using dmd 0.153 and the included phobos.  When I try to compile
 the following:

 import std.boxer;
 import std.stdio;

 int main()
 {
     Box x = box(42);
     writefln("The answer to life, the universe, "
             "and everything is: %d", unbox!(int)(x));

     return 0;
 }

 I get the following error message:

 e:\Bin\Bin\link.exe boxtest,,,user32+kernel32/noi;
 OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
 Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved

 boxtest.obj(boxtest)
  Error 42: Symbol Undefined _assert_3std5boxer
 --- errorlevel 1

 Anyone have any idea what I stuffed up?  Other stuff, including
 writefln, seems to work fine (well, apart from MinTL but we've already
 covered that one), so I'm fairly sure it's linking in phobos.lib  
 properly.

 Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


To compile using the std.boxer you should always use the "-release" switch.

This has been a mistake in the Phobos library for almost a year now.  
Walter, why can't this low-hanging-fruit be fixed ASAP.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
Apr 13 2006
parent reply Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> writes:
Aaah, I see.  I actually had a poke around the .lib files after I wrote
that, and noticed that phobos didn't have a debug .lib -- is that what
causes it?

If that is the case, would I be able to compile my own so that I can
produce a debug version of my executables?  I just spent the last week
or so trying to get gdb with D support; to finally get it working and
then not be able to produce debug executables would *really* annoy me :P

Anyway, thanks for the heads up.

	-- Daniel

Derek Parnell wrote:

 On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:30:05 +1000, Daniel Keep
 <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> wrote:
 

 Oh, look--it's me and something's not working again :P

 Ok, I'm using dmd 0.153 and the included phobos.  When I try to compile
 the following:

 import std.boxer;
 import std.stdio;

 int main()
 {
     Box x = box(42);
     writefln("The answer to life, the universe, "
             "and everything is: %d", unbox!(int)(x));

     return 0;
 }

 I get the following error message:

 e:\Bin\Bin\link.exe boxtest,,,user32+kernel32/noi;
 OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
 Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved

 boxtest.obj(boxtest)
  Error 42: Symbol Undefined _assert_3std5boxer
 --- errorlevel 1

 Anyone have any idea what I stuffed up?  Other stuff, including
 writefln, seems to work fine (well, apart from MinTL but we've already
 covered that one), so I'm fairly sure it's linking in phobos.lib
 properly.

 Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


 
 To compile using the std.boxer you should always use the "-release" switch.
 
 This has been a mistake in the Phobos library for almost a year now.
 Walter, why can't this low-hanging-fruit be fixed ASAP.
 
 --Derek Parnell
 Melbourne, Australia


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Apr 14 2006
parent Sean Kelly <sean f4.ca> writes:
Daniel Keep wrote:

 Aaah, I see.  I actually had a poke around the .lib files after I wrote
 that, and noticed that phobos didn't have a debug .lib -- is that what
 causes it?


Yes.  Template code is kind of weird in that it isn't compiled until 
instantiated, but the DMD compiler generates non-template functions to 
handle in/out clauses and asserts.  So if you use a debug app with 
template code containing asserts and such from a library that wasn't 
built with -debug set, then the assert functions won't exist in that 
library.  The easiest way around this for library programmers making 
mixed-mode libraries is to always compile modules containing templates 
with -debug set, but this is only feasible if the module *only* contains 
templates.  This isn't the case for std.boxer, so there are two options:

* ship release and debug builds of Phobos
* fix the compiler to always generate debug code for templates and rely 
on it being thrown out by the linker if it is not needed


 If that is the case, would I be able to compile my own so that I can
 produce a debug version of my executables?


Yes.


Sean
Apr 14 2006
prev sibling next sibling parent Brad Roberts <braddr puremagic.com> writes:
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Daniel Keep wrote:


 Oh, look--it's me and something's not working again :P
 
 Ok, I'm using dmd 0.153 and the included phobos.  When I try to compile
 the following:
 
 import std.boxer;
 import std.stdio;
 
 int main()
 {
     Box x = box(42);
     writefln("The answer to life, the universe, "
             "and everything is: %d", unbox!(int)(x));
 
     return 0;
 }
 
 I get the following error message:
 
 e:\Bin\Bin\link.exe boxtest,,,user32+kernel32/noi;
 OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
 Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved
 
 boxtest.obj(boxtest)
  Error 42: Symbol Undefined _assert_3std5boxer
 --- errorlevel 1
 
 Anyone have any idea what I stuffed up?  Other stuff, including
 writefln, seems to work fine (well, apart from MinTL but we've already
 covered that one), so I'm fairly sure it's linking in phobos.lib properly.
 
 Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
 	-- Daniel.


This looks like http://d.puremagic.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8

There's a work around suggested in the report, compile with -release.  
Ugly, but..

Later,
Brad
Apr 14 2006
prev sibling next sibling parent Victor Nakoryakov <nail-mail mail.ru> writes:
Daniel Keep wrote:

 Oh, look--it's me and something's not working again :P
 
 Ok, I'm using dmd 0.153 and the included phobos.  When I try to compile
 the following:
 
 import std.boxer;
 import std.stdio;
 
 int main()
 {
     Box x = box(42);
     writefln("The answer to life, the universe, "
             "and everything is: %d", unbox!(int)(x));
 
     return 0;
 }
 
 I get the following error message:
 
 e:\Bin\Bin\link.exe boxtest,,,user32+kernel32/noi;
 OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
 Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved
 
 boxtest.obj(boxtest)
  Error 42: Symbol Undefined _assert_3std5boxer
 --- errorlevel 1
 
 Anyone have any idea what I stuffed up?  Other stuff, including
 writefln, seems to work fine (well, apart from MinTL but we've already
 covered that one), so I'm fairly sure it's linking in phobos.lib properly.
 
 Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
 	-- Daniel.
 


Another solution is to copy std/boxer.d to your project, in this case 
you haven't to always use -release.

-- 
Victor (aka nail) Nakoryakov
nail-mail<at>mail<dot>ru

Krasnoznamensk, Moscow, Russia
Apr 14 2006
prev sibling parent reply David L. Davis <SpottedTiger yahoo.com> writes:
In article <e1nc14$1gb5$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Daniel Keep says...

Oh, look--it's me and something's not working again :P

Ok, I'm using dmd 0.153 and the included phobos.  When I try to compile
the following:

import std.boxer;
import std.stdio;

int main()
{
    Box x = box(42);
    writefln("The answer to life, the universe, "
            "and everything is: %d", unbox!(int)(x));

    return 0;
}

I get the following error message:

e:\Bin\Bin\link.exe boxtest,,,user32+kernel32/noi;
OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved

boxtest.obj(boxtest)
 Error 42: Symbol Undefined _assert_3std5boxer
--- errorlevel 1

Anyone have any idea what I stuffed up?  Other stuff, including
writefln, seems to work fine (well, apart from MinTL but we've already
covered that one), so I'm fairly sure it's linking in phobos.lib properly.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

	-- Daniel.


Daniel, adding the "extern (C) void assert_3std5boxer() { }" line below which
Burton shared with us many moons ago will also work (without the need for
-release switch) and you can add unittests as well.





























Output:
------------
C:\dmd>dmd daniel1.d
C:\dmd\bin\..\..\dm\bin\link.exe daniel1,,,user32+kernel32/noi;

C:\dmd>daniel1
The answer to life, the universe, and everything is: 42

C:\dmd>


David L.

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Apr 14 2006
next sibling parent Kyle Furlong <kylefurlong gmail.com> writes:
David L. Davis wrote:

 In article <e1nc14$1gb5$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Daniel Keep says...

 Oh, look--it's me and something's not working again :P

 Ok, I'm using dmd 0.153 and the included phobos.  When I try to compile
 the following:

 import std.boxer;
 import std.stdio;

 int main()
 {
    Box x = box(42);
    writefln("The answer to life, the universe, "
            "and everything is: %d", unbox!(int)(x));

    return 0;
 }

 I get the following error message:

 e:\Bin\Bin\link.exe boxtest,,,user32+kernel32/noi;
 OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
 Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved

 boxtest.obj(boxtest)
 Error 42: Symbol Undefined _assert_3std5boxer
 --- errorlevel 1

 Anyone have any idea what I stuffed up?  Other stuff, including
 writefln, seems to work fine (well, apart from MinTL but we've already
 covered that one), so I'm fairly sure it's linking in phobos.lib properly.

 Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 	-- Daniel.


 
 Daniel, adding the "extern (C) void assert_3std5boxer() { }" line below which
 Burton shared with us many moons ago will also work (without the need for
 -release switch) and you can add unittests as well.
 



























 
 Output:
 ------------
 C:\dmd>dmd daniel1.d
 C:\dmd\bin\..\..\dm\bin\link.exe daniel1,,,user32+kernel32/noi;
 
 C:\dmd>daniel1
 The answer to life, the universe, and everything is: 42
 
 C:\dmd>
 
 
 David L.
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 "Dare to reach for the Stars...Dare to Dream, Build, and Achieve!"
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 MKoD: http://spottedtiger.tripod.com/D_Language/D_Main_XP.html


Thats really not the right solution though. Thats a hack to replace the symbol
with an empty function. What is needed is a debug 
build of phobos with the right function.
Apr 14 2006
prev sibling parent Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> writes:
Excellent!  Thanks for that.  Too bad I just lost my excuse to not do
unit tests <grumble, grumble> :P.

	-- Daniel

David L. Davis wrote:

 In article <e1nc14$1gb5$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Daniel Keep says...

 Oh, look--it's me and something's not working again :P

 Ok, I'm using dmd 0.153 and the included phobos.  When I try to compile
 the following:

 import std.boxer;
 import std.stdio;

 int main()
 {
    Box x = box(42);
    writefln("The answer to life, the universe, "
            "and everything is: %d", unbox!(int)(x));

    return 0;
 }

 I get the following error message:

 e:\Bin\Bin\link.exe boxtest,,,user32+kernel32/noi;
 OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 7.50B1
 Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001  All Rights Reserved

 boxtest.obj(boxtest)
 Error 42: Symbol Undefined _assert_3std5boxer
 --- errorlevel 1

 Anyone have any idea what I stuffed up?  Other stuff, including
 writefln, seems to work fine (well, apart from MinTL but we've already
 covered that one), so I'm fairly sure it's linking in phobos.lib properly.

 Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 	-- Daniel.


 
 Daniel, adding the "extern (C) void assert_3std5boxer() { }" line below which
 Burton shared with us many moons ago will also work (without the need for
 -release switch) and you can add unittests as well.
 



























 
 Output:
 ------------
 C:\dmd>dmd daniel1.d
 C:\dmd\bin\..\..\dm\bin\link.exe daniel1,,,user32+kernel32/noi;
 
 C:\dmd>daniel1
 The answer to life, the universe, and everything is: 42
 
 C:\dmd>
 
 
 David L.
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 "Dare to reach for the Stars...Dare to Dream, Build, and Achieve!"
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 MKoD: http://spottedtiger.tripod.com/D_Language/D_Main_XP.html


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