• FoxyBrown (10/10) Jul 28 2017 After upgrading to latest dmd and having to rebuild gtk, I now
• Marco Leise (15/26) Jul 29 2017 Expect potential changes to the ABI in every Dlang version.

FoxyBrown <Foxy Brown.IPT> writes:

After upgrading to latest dmd and having to rebuild gtk, I now 
get the following error

  Error 1: Previous Definition Different : 
_D3gtk3All12__ModuleInfoZ (gtk.All.__ModuleInfo)


in my apps that were previously working(no changes, opened up old 
app and tried to build it and it didn't work). All I did was 
upgrade dmd2.

So tired of D and it's crap ;/ So unstable in so many ways. About 
10% as productive overall than other languages I've used.  It's 
error messages are about as helpful as a rock.

Marco Leise <Marco.Leise gmx.de> writes:

Am Fri, 28 Jul 2017 22:53:52 +0000
schrieb FoxyBrown <Foxy Brown.IPT>:

 After upgrading to latest dmd and having to rebuild gtk, I now 
 get the following error
 
   Error 1: Previous Definition Different : 
 _D3gtk3All12__ModuleInfoZ (gtk.All.__ModuleInfo)


 in my apps that were previously working(no changes, opened up old 
 app and tried to build it and it didn't work). All I did was 
 upgrade dmd2.

Expect potential changes to the ABI in every Dlang version.
After a compiler upgrade you have to rebuild all libraries.
That's why for the Gentoo Linux packages I maintain, there is
a separate library path for each Dlang version, compiler
vendor and architecture (i.e. 32-bit/64-bit). That way an
upgrade doesn't affect existing apps at the cost of manually
maintaining the list of compilers (and versions) you want to
install GtkD for.

 So tired of D and it's crap ;/ So unstable in so many ways. About 
 10% as productive overall than other languages I've used.  It's 
 error messages are about as helpful as a rock.

Error messages did get better, but generic functions will
always end up looking more verbose than e.g. errors for C
function calls.

-- 
Marco