Build Instructions using Tango trunk on Linux/OSX/FreeBSD/Solaris

After LDC has been build, we can now set up a working LDC/Tango setup.

• Install LDC to /opt/ldc

mkdir /opt/ldc
mkdir /opt/ldc/bin
mkdir /opt/ldc/import
mkdir /opt/ldc/lib
cd ../ldc/bin
cp ldc ldmd ldc.conf /opt/ldc/bin

• Fetch&Compile Tango

export PATH=/opt/ldc/bin:$PATH
svn co http://svn.dsource.org/projects/tango/trunk
cd trunk
./build/script/bob.rb -vu -r ldc -c ldc .
cp libtango.a /opt/ldc/lib
cp -r object.di tango /opt/ldc/import/

• Change the contents of /opt/ldc/bin/ldc.conf to:

default:
{
    switches = [
        "-I%%ldcbinarypath%%/../import",
        "-I%%ldcbinarypath%%/../import/tango/core/vendor",
        "-L-L%%ldcbinarypath%%/../lib",
        "-d-version=Tango",
        "-defaultlib=tango",
        "-debuglib=tango"
    ];
};

• Done! :D

Notes:

• "object.d: Error: module object cannot read file 'object.d'"; This error indicates that your ldc.conf is wrong; you may have a stale ldc.conf around that is used by ldc instead.
  To check for other ldc.conf files on your system you can do "find / -iname "ldc.conf"". Or put a syntax error into ldc.conf; if ldc isn't complaining, it's using a different ldc.conf file.

• Instead of the bob.rb (a Ruby script) you can also use ./build/bin/<arch>/bob.

• You can install ldc in some other directory, of course, but you need to adjust some paths!

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• Create a file called main.d:

  import tango.io.Stdout;
  
  void main()
  {
     Stdout("Hello World!").nl;
  }
  

• Compile it to verify that LDC with Tango is working:

  ldc main.d
  ./main