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reply =?UTF-8?B?Ik5vcmRsw7Z3Ig==?= <per.nordlow gmail.com> writes:
I'm starting a geometry module (fixed dimensional linear algebra) 
similar to Boost.Geometry.
I want these structures to have tight integration with OpenGL 
wrappers.
I've built and installed gl3n and thought it would be a good base 
to start with.

But when I try to link my sample application



pragma(lib, "gl3n");

import gl3n.linalg;
import std.stdio;
import std.algorithm;

void main(string args[]) {
     writeln(vec2(2, 3).x);
     writeln(vec2(2, 3));
     writeln(cross(vec3(2, 3, 4),
                   vec3(4, 3, 2)));
     writeln(dot(vec3(2, 3, 4),
                 vec3(4, 3, 2)));
     writeln(vec3(2, 3, 4));
}

I get the linking error

/home/per/opt/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/dmd/bin/dmd -debug -gc 
-unittest -D 
-Dd/home/per/.emacs.d/auto-builds/dmd/Debug-Boundscheck-Unittest/h
me/per/Work/cognia/ 
-w  ~/Work/cognia/geometry.d 
-of/home/per/.emacs.d/auto-builds/dmd/Debug-Boundscheck-Unittest/home/per/Work/cognia/geometry
/home/per/opt/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/dmd/bin/../lib/libgl3n.a(util.o): 
In function `no symbol':
gl3n/util.d:(.text+0x6): undefined reference to `_Dmodule_ref'
/home/per/opt/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/dmd/bin/../lib/libgl3n.a(linalg.o): 
In function `no symbol':
gl3n/linalg.d:(.text+0x6): undefined reference to `_Dmodule_ref'
/home/per/opt/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/dmd/bin/../lib/libgl3n.a(plane.o): 
In function `no symbol':
gl3n/plane.d:(.text+0x6): undefined reference to `_Dmodule_ref'
/home/per/opt/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/dmd/bin/../lib/libgl3n.a(plane.o): 
In function 
`_D4gl3n5plane13__T6PlaneTTfZ6PlaneT8opEqualsMxFNaNbNfS4gl3n5plane13__T6PlaneTTfZ6PlaneTZb':
gl3n/plane.d:(.text._D4gl3n5plane13__T6PlaneTTfZ6PlaneT8opEqualsMxFNaNbNfS4gl3n5plane13__T6Plane
TfZ6PlaneTZb+0x51): 
undefined reference to 
`_D4gl3n6linalg16__T6VectorTfVi3Z6Vector53__T8opEqualsTxS4gl3n6linalg16__T6VectorTfVi3Z6VectorZ8opEqualsMxFNaNbNfxS4gl3n6linalg16__T6VectorTfVi3Z6VectorZb'
/home/per/opt/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/dmd/bin/../lib/libgl3n.a(math.o): 
In function `no symbol':
gl3n/math.d:(.text+0x6): undefined reference to `_Dmodule_ref'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
--- errorlevel 1

I know DMD finds the libgl3n.a because otherwise it complains 
about hundreds of missing symbols.
It is however strange that a single gl3n-symbol is missing.
Maybe there's a bug gl3n.

I've tried adding

extern (C) void* _Dmodule_ref = null;

the line as indicated in other threads but then again I get

/home/per/opt/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/dmd/bin/dmd -debug -gc 
-unittest -D 
-Dd/home/per/.emacs.d/auto-builds/dmd/Debug-Boundscheck-Unittest/h
me/per/Work/cognia/ 
-w  ~/Work/cognia/geometry.d 
-of/home/per/.emacs.d/auto-builds/dmd/Debug-Boundscheck-Unittest/home/per/Work/cognia/geometry
/usr/bin/ld: _Dmodule_ref: TLS definition in 
/home/per/.emacs.d/auto-builds/dmd/Debug-Boundscheck-Unittest/home/per/Wo
k/cognia/geometry.o 
section .tbss mismatches non-TLS reference in 
/home/per/opt/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/dmd/bin/../lib/libgl3n.a(util.o)
/home/per/opt/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/dmd/bin/../lib/libgl3n.a: 
could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
--- errorlevel 1

I can't understand what the meaning of _Dmodule_ref even not 
after having read about it in other threads.
Some say it has to do with linking to C libraries but gl3n 
doesn't use C libraries.

The error is removed when I remove

pragma(lib, "gl3n");

along with the import and uses gl3n structures (of course)

so the symbols _Dmodule_ref is referenced from libgl3n.a

What is wrong?

Thx,
Per Nordlöw
Aug 25 2013
next sibling parent =?UTF-8?B?Ik5vcmRsw7Z3Ig==?= <per.nordlow gmail.com> writes:
Note that problem occurs both in DMD versions 2.063.2 and in git 
master.
Aug 25 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent reply David <d dav1d.de> writes:
I can't reproduce this.
But I recommend you to use gl3n as a submodule (if you use git) or
include the sources directly and add the files to your build-system.
That makes distributing easier and gets hopefully rid of this error.
Aug 25 2013
parent =?UTF-8?B?Ik5vcmRsw7Z3Ig==?= <per.nordlow gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 25 August 2013 at 10:36:19 UTC, David wrote:
 I can't reproduce this.
 But I recommend you to use gl3n as a submodule (if you use git) 
 or
 include the sources directly and add the files to your 
 build-system.
 That makes distributing easier and gets hopefully rid of this 
 error.
Ok. Thx. I'll do that for now.
Aug 27 2013
prev sibling parent "David Nadlinger" <code klickverbot.at> writes:
On Sunday, 25 August 2013 at 10:12:48 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
 so the symbols _Dmodule_ref is referenced from libgl3n.a

 What is wrong?
Did you (re)build libgl3n with the exact DMD version you a trying to use it from? The binaries produced by different releases of the various compilers around are not ABI-compatible. David
Aug 25 2013