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I am trying to teach myself AI using neural networks. Long story short, I wanted to create a simple graphic that would display what is happening in my program using ncurses. The tutorial that I am using is found here . I was under the impression that D was compatible with C and I could theoretically call C functions relatively easily. I find that not to be the case. I am a relatively novice programmer, so even the simplistic explanations are a little above my head. I found this here . D is designed to fit comfortably with a C compiler for the target system. D makes up for not having its own VM

I download the GDC for Linux , and try to build a simple D Program. After executing " gdc hello.d -o hello ", it outputs: [root@localhost nan]# gdc hello.d -o hello /usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option '-plugin' /usr/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Then I use " gdc -v hello.d -o hello " command, and try to find the root cause. It displays: ...... COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-o' 'hello' '-shared-libgcc' '-mtune=generic' '-march=x86-64' /home/nan/x86_64-gdcproject-linux-gnu/bin/../libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.9.0/collect2 -plugin

I have compiled gdc together with gcc using the android build-gcc.sh script, and have included a new stub in build/core/definitions.mk to deal with D language files as a part of the build process. I know things are compiling OK at this point, but my problem is linking: When I build a project, I get this error: ld: crtbegin_so.o: No such file: No such file or directory This is true for regular c-only projects as well. Now I ran a quick find in my build directory, and found that the file (crtbegin_so.o) does exist within the sysroot I specified when I compiled gcc (or rather, when build-gcc.sh

What are the Pros/Cons of the different D Compilers? How is the performance and the standard compliance/D2 support? How well are debuggers supported? How good are the Error messages and is the IDE integration? How good is the 64 bit support? My thought so far: DMD Mature and well maintained Only one platform, 64 bit support is not good Not FOSS GDC Supports various platforms Has very mature optimizations, so it's fast? Out of date runtime? GCC so a good debugger support? LDC Supports various platforms LLVM, so it supports JITing? Has very mature optimizations, so it's fast? Not very well

I'm new to programming in D. What are the pros and cons of choosing either DMD (2.061) or GDC (4.6, 4.7 or 4.8, snapshot). And what GDC version should I pick? I've successfully built a recent snapshot of GCC-4.8 and GDC-4.8 and it compiles a hello world program. Here are my thoughts on pros so far: GDC : More platforms, run-time performance DMD : compilation-performance, more tested? What about debugging support through GDB - does it differ between GDC and DMD? Michal Minich Use DMD as it is the reference implementation and is most widely used. It is also the most up to date as new features