• Dukc (20/20) Jul 09 2019 I just downloaded ldc 1.15.0 for Linux from GH releases. Testing
• Dukc (2/3) Jul 09 2019 meant that `ld` is there
• Johan Engelen (9/16) Jul 10 2019 Run LDC with "-v" and check what the linker command is (somewhere
• Dukc (6/22) Jul 11 2019 Thanks, that worked, I needed ld.gold. There was a catch,

Dukc <ajieskola gmail.com> writes:

I just downloaded ldc 1.15.0 for Linux from GH releases. Testing 
it, it will make the object file out of a hello world 
application, but then complain:
```
collect2: fatal error: cannot find ‘ld’
compilation terminated.
```

This is strange, because running either `ld` or `clang` (yes, I 
checked readme file) in the same directory as the compilation 
will indicate that I have both of them. And clang is version 8, 
same as the llvm version that 1.15.0 is based on. dmd works 
correctly, but downloaded that as `.rpm`.

If it makes any difference, I just dumped the contents of the ldc 
download folder directly into my home, so that there is 
`~/bin/ldc2`, `~/etc/ldc2.conf`, and so on.

Making a symlink to ld into ~/bin won't make a difference, and 
`ln` won't let me to make a hard link, it complains about 
something like invalid link between devices (ln is in `usr/bin/` 
which should be on same drive and partition as `~/bin`).

What could be wrong?

Dukc <ajieskola gmail.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 9 July 2019 at 15:25:17 UTC, Dukc wrote:
 (ln is in `usr/bin/`

meant that `ld` is there

Johan Engelen <j j.nl> writes:

On Tuesday, 9 July 2019 at 15:25:17 UTC, Dukc wrote:
 I just downloaded ldc 1.15.0 for Linux from GH releases. 
 Testing it, it will make the object file out of a hello world 
 application, but then complain:
 ```
 collect2: fatal error: cannot find ‘ld’
 compilation terminated.
 ```

Run LDC with "-v" and check what the linker command is (somewhere 
at the bottom, LDC invokes `gcc` for linking). You might see 
something like `-Wl,-fuse-ld=...` in that gcc command line. 
Perhaps that ld.gold / ld.bfd is not installed and thus GCC 
complains that it cannot find it.
See e.g. 
https://askubuntu.com/questions/798453/collect2-fatal-error-cannot-find-ld-compilation-terminated

-Johan

Dukc <ajieskola gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 at 23:15:38 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
 On Tuesday, 9 July 2019 at 15:25:17 UTC, Dukc wrote:
 I just downloaded ldc 1.15.0 for Linux from GH releases. 
 Testing it, it will make the object file out of a hello world 
 application, but then complain:
 ```
 collect2: fatal error: cannot find ‘ld’
 compilation terminated.
 ```

 Run LDC with "-v" and check what the linker command is 
 (somewhere at the bottom, LDC invokes `gcc` for linking). You 
 might see something like `-Wl,-fuse-ld=...` in that gcc command 
 line. Perhaps that ld.gold / ld.bfd is not installed and thus 
 GCC complains that it cannot find it.
 See e.g. 
 https://askubuntu.com/questions/798453/collect2-fatal-error-cannot-find-ld-compilation-terminated

 -Johan

Thanks, that worked, I needed ld.gold. There was a catch, 
however: one would think that `llvm8-gold` is the .rpm package in 
question, but installing it did change nothing. Good that you 
provided that link, otherwise I would never have quessed that I 
have to install `binutils-gold` instead.