• Joseph Colton (28/28) Jan 02 2007 I would like to create a module for creating ODF documents using D. I h...
• Chris Nicholson-Sauls (8/42) Jan 02 2007 The code itself looks fine. What's your compile command line? Are you ...
• Joseph Colton (3/45) Jan 02 2007 Thank you. That solved the problem.
• Frits van Bommel (10/13) Jan 03 2007 There's also the alternative option if you want to compile each .d file

Joseph Colton <josephcolton gmail.com> writes:

I would like to create a module for creating ODF documents using D.  I have
done this before in Perl and Python, but I was able to easily figure out how
to create modules there.

I currently have two files that I am trying to get to interface correctly.
Here is the first file called ooolib.d:

module ooolib;
class Calc
{
public:
        this()
        {
        }

        char[] echo(char[] name)
        {
                return name;
        }
}

The second file is called test.d:

import std.stdio;
import ooolib;
void main(char[][] args)
{
    Calc doc = new Calc();
    writefln(doc.echo("Hello World"));
}

For some reason I cannot seem to get them to work together.  I get a lot
errors that claim there are undefined references.  I am obviously missing
something, does anyone know what I am missing?

Chris Nicholson-Sauls <ibisbasenji gmail.com> writes:

Joseph Colton wrote:
 I would like to create a module for creating ODF documents using D.  I have
 done this before in Perl and Python, but I was able to easily figure out how
 to create modules there.
 
 I currently have two files that I am trying to get to interface correctly.
 Here is the first file called ooolib.d:
 
 module ooolib;
 class Calc
 {
 public:
         this()
         {
         }
 
         char[] echo(char[] name)
         {
                 return name;
         }
 }
 
 The second file is called test.d:
 
 import std.stdio;
 import ooolib;
 void main(char[][] args)
 {
     Calc doc = new Calc();
     writefln(doc.echo("Hello World"));
 }
 
 For some reason I cannot seem to get them to work together.  I get a lot
 errors that claim there are undefined references.  I am obviously missing
 something, does anyone know what I am missing?

The code itself looks fine.  What's your compile command line?  Are you
including both 
modules in arguments to the compiler?  Something like:
dmd test.d ooolib.d

(Not attacking your intelligence.  Its just a common first mistake.)
There's also the Build utility if you worry about command lines getting long.
http://dsource.org/projects/build

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls

Joseph Colton <josephcolton gmail.com> writes:

== Quote from Chris Nicholson-Sauls (ibisbasenji gmail.com)'s article
 Joseph Colton wrote:
 I would like to create a module for creating ODF documents using D.  I have
 done this before in Perl and Python, but I was able to easily figure out how
 to create modules there.

 I currently have two files that I am trying to get to interface correctly.
 Here is the first file called ooolib.d:

 module ooolib;
 class Calc
 {
 public:
         this()
         {
         }

         char[] echo(char[] name)
         {
                 return name;
         }
 }

 The second file is called test.d:

 import std.stdio;
 import ooolib;
 void main(char[][] args)
 {
     Calc doc = new Calc();
     writefln(doc.echo("Hello World"));
 }

 For some reason I cannot seem to get them to work together.  I get a lot
 errors that claim there are undefined references.  I am obviously missing
 something, does anyone know what I am missing?

 The code itself looks fine.  What's your compile command line?  Are you

including both
 modules in arguments to the compiler?  Something like:
 dmd test.d ooolib.d
 (Not attacking your intelligence.  Its just a common first mistake.)
 There's also the Build utility if you worry about command lines getting long.
 http://dsource.org/projects/build
 -- Chris Nicholson-Sauls

Thank you.  That solved the problem.

Frits van Bommel <fvbommel REMwOVExCAPSs.nl> writes:

Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote:
 The code itself looks fine.  What's your compile command line?  Are you 
 including both modules in arguments to the compiler?  Something like:
 dmd test.d ooolib.d

There's also the alternative option if you want to compile each .d file 
separately: pass -c to just compile without linking.
Later, pass all the generated .o or .obj files (on Linux and Windows, 
respectively) to dmd to link them.

But as Chris mentioned build comes highly recommended by many people. 
Not by me personally though, since I don't have much first-hand 
experience with it. Code::Blocks[1] is what I use and also works quite 
well. (don't get rc2, it's ancient)


[1]: to get it, go to http://www.codeblocks.org and get a recent nightly