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reply psychoticRabbit <meagain meagain.com> writes:
So I finally got around to building from source.

I have builds working just fine on a variety of linux machines, 
it's just a FreeBSD problem I'm having.

So, on FreeBSD, I can build the dmd directory, and the phobos 
directory ok.

When building tools directory, most tools get built ok, but the 
build process stops during something to do with curl..

------------------------------------

 gmake -f posix.mak -j8  (yeah on FreeBSD use gmake not make)


.
..
... (bunch of stuff builds ok.. then this next line)
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurl
cc: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see 
invocation)
Error: linker exited with status 1
gmake: *** [posix.mak:77: generated/freebsd/64/dget] Error 1
gmake: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
----------------------------

Yes, I do have the FreeBSD curl package installed - curl-7.56.0

Yes, curl is in the path> which curl -> /usr/local/bin/curl

So I can only assume my FreeBSD machine is missing some curl 
related library/package??

Any help would be appreciated.
Feb 19 2018
parent reply Jonathan M Davis <newsgroup.d jmdavisprog.com> writes:
On Monday, February 19, 2018 11:43:26 psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-
learn wrote:

 So I finally got around to building from source.

 I have builds working just fine on a variety of linux machines,
 it's just a FreeBSD problem I'm having.

 So, on FreeBSD, I can build the dmd directory, and the phobos
 directory ok.

 When building tools directory, most tools get built ok, but the
 build process stops during something to do with curl..

 ------------------------------------


 gmake -f posix.mak -j8  (yeah on FreeBSD use gmake not make)


 .
 ..
 ... (bunch of stuff builds ok.. then this next line)
 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurl
 cc: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see
 invocation)
 Error: linker exited with status 1
 gmake: *** [posix.mak:77: generated/freebsd/64/dget] Error 1
 gmake: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
 ----------------------------

 Yes, I do have the FreeBSD curl package installed - curl-7.56.0

 Yes, curl is in the path> which curl -> /usr/local/bin/curl

 So I can only assume my FreeBSD machine is missing some curl
 related library/package??

 Any help would be appreciated.


I've never been able to figure this problem out, so I've I always just
edited the makefile so that the two programs in CURL_TOOLS aren't built.
IIRC, if you use -v to see the full linker command, it's even actually
linking to the curl library that's there but somehow not succeeding. It's
all quite weird. It's been a while since I dug into it though.

- Jonathan M Davis
Feb 19 2018
next sibling parent psychoticRabbit <meagain meagain.com> writes:
On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 12:01:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:

 I've never been able to figure this problem out, so I've I 
 always just edited the makefile so that the two programs in 
 CURL_TOOLS aren't built. IIRC, if you use -v to see the full 
 linker command, it's even actually linking to the curl library 
 that's there but somehow not succeeding. It's all quite weird. 
 It's been a while since I dug into it though.

 - Jonathan M Davis


Thanks for the quick response.

So I took your advice and just commented out (as per below), and 
now it all builds fine - AFAICT ;-)


-FROM
61:all: $(TOOLS) $(CURL_TOOLS) $(ROOT)/dustmite
76:$(TOOLS) $(DOC_TOOLS) $(CURL_TOOLS) $(TEST_TOOLS): $(ROOT)/%: 
%.d

-TO
61:all: $(TOOLS) $(ROOT)/dustmite
76:$(TOOLS) $(DOC_TOOLS) $(TEST_TOOLS): $(ROOT)/%: %.d
Feb 19 2018
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Seb <seb wilzba.ch> writes:
On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 12:01:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:

 On Monday, February 19, 2018 11:43:26 psychoticRabbit via 
 Digitalmars-d- learn wrote:

 [...]


 I've never been able to figure this problem out, so I've I 
 always just edited the makefile so that the two programs in 
 CURL_TOOLS aren't built. IIRC, if you use -v to see the full 
 linker command, it's even actually linking to the curl library 
 that's there but somehow not succeeding. It's all quite weird. 
 It's been a while since I dug into it though.

 - Jonathan M Davis


FYI: https://github.com/dlang/tools/pull/316
Feb 19 2018
parent Jonathan M Davis <newsgroup.d jmdavisprog.com> writes:
On Monday, February 19, 2018 14:41:21 Seb via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:

 On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 12:01:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis

 wrote:

 On Monday, February 19, 2018 11:43:26 psychoticRabbit via

 Digitalmars-d- learn wrote:

 [...]


 I've never been able to figure this problem out, so I've I
 always just edited the makefile so that the two programs in
 CURL_TOOLS aren't built. IIRC, if you use -v to see the full
 linker command, it's even actually linking to the curl library
 that's there but somehow not succeeding. It's all quite weird.
 It's been a while since I dug into it though.

 - Jonathan M Davis


 FYI: https://github.com/dlang/tools/pull/316


It looks like that might actually fix the tools build for FreeBSD on my
machine if the bit that he currently has versioned for DragonFly is used for
FreeBSD as well (and it probably needs to be there for every BSD). I've
never understood why the tools repo builds fine for releases but has never
built properly for me locally.

- Jonathan M Davis
Feb 19 2018
prev sibling parent reply psychoticRabbit <meagain meagain.com> writes:
On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 12:01:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:

 I've never been able to figure this problem out, so I've I 
 always just edited the makefile so that the two programs in 
 CURL_TOOLS aren't built. IIRC, if you use -v to see the full 
 linker command, it's even actually linking to the curl library 
 that's there but somehow not succeeding. It's all quite weird. 
 It's been a while since I dug into it though.

 - Jonathan M Davis


ok... so I decided to dig into it a little further.

seems the problem relates to a single line, in dget.d

pragma(lib, "curl");

I just commented out the one line in dget.d, and it all seems to 
build ok (including dget). So no need to comment out tools in 
posix.mak anymore.
Feb 19 2018
parent reply Diederik de Groot <ddegroot talon.nl> writes:
On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 03:59:06 UTC, psychoticRabbit 
wrote:

 On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 12:01:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
 wrote:

 ....


 ok... so I decided to dig into it a little further.

 seems the problem relates to a single line, in dget.d

 pragma(lib, "curl");

 I just commented out the one line in dget.d, and it all seems 
 to build ok (including dget). So no need to comment out tools 
 in posix.mak anymore.


Removing the pragma(lib, "curl") seems to fix the issue on DFly 
(and FreeBSD). Updated the pull request.
I guess pragma(lib, xxx) needs a little bit of attention to see 
what causes it not to work.
Feb 21 2018
parent psychoticRabbit <meagain meagain.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 at 11:41:18 UTC, Diederik de Groot 
wrote:

 Removing the pragma(lib, "curl") seems to fix the issue on DFly 
 (and FreeBSD). Updated the pull request.
 I guess pragma(lib, xxx) needs a little bit of attention to see 
 what causes it not to work.


something to do with this perhaps?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23214697/trouble-with-curl-and-pragma

in any case, that line doesn't even need to be there AFAICT.

dget builds and works just fine with it commented out.

I've commented it out on my linux builds too.
Feb 21 2018