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digitalmars.D.learn - Problem with environ variable (Mac OS X)

reply "Chris" <wendlec tcd.ie> writes:
I tried to create a JNI library that - via C - accesses a D 
function. Calling D from C is not a problem, but when the whole 
stuff is wrapped into a JNI library, I get the following error 
message:

Error:
Undefined symbols:
   "_environ", referenced from:
       _environ$non_lazy_ptr in libphobos2.a(process_61b_495.o)
      (maybe you meant: _environ$non_lazy_ptr)

I know it's a Mac specific thing and a fix exists (cf. 
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/environ.html), 
however it doesn't work in my case. process.d accesses environ in 
a similar way. I am not sure whether I get it all wrong, or 
whether it isn't possible at all to do the JNI-C-D thing.

I have also read somewhere that JNI could be created directly 
using D, I haven't found an example, though. Does anyone know 
anything about it? This would of course be more convenient.
Sep 19 2012
parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2012-09-19 12:35, Chris wrote:
 I tried to create a JNI library that - via C - accesses a D function.
 Calling D from C is not a problem, but when the whole stuff is wrapped
 into a JNI library, I get the following error message:

 Error:
 Undefined symbols:
    "_environ", referenced from:
        _environ$non_lazy_ptr in libphobos2.a(process_61b_495.o)
       (maybe you meant: _environ$non_lazy_ptr)

 I know it's a Mac specific thing and a fix exists (cf.
 https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/environ.html),
 however it doesn't work in my case. process.d accesses environ in a
 similar way. I am not sure whether I get it all wrong, or whether it
 isn't possible at all to do the JNI-C-D thing.

 I have also read somewhere that JNI could be created directly using D, I
 haven't found an example, though. Does anyone know anything about it?
 This would of course be more convenient.
A fix for that was applied last year. Which version of the compiler are you using? https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/process.d#L60 -- /Jacob Carlborg
Sep 19 2012
next sibling parent "Chris" <wendlec tcd.ie> writes:
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 17:31:41 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
 On 2012-09-19 12:35, Chris wrote:
 I tried to create a JNI library that - via C - accesses a D 
 function.
 Calling D from C is not a problem, but when the whole stuff is 
 wrapped
 into a JNI library, I get the following error message:

 Error:
 Undefined symbols:
   "_environ", referenced from:
       _environ$non_lazy_ptr in libphobos2.a(process_61b_495.o)
      (maybe you meant: _environ$non_lazy_ptr)

 I know it's a Mac specific thing and a fix exists (cf.
 https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/environ.html),
 however it doesn't work in my case. process.d accesses environ 
 in a
 similar way. I am not sure whether I get it all wrong, or 
 whether it
 isn't possible at all to do the JNI-C-D thing.

 I have also read somewhere that JNI could be created directly 
 using D, I
 haven't found an example, though. Does anyone know anything 
 about it?
 This would of course be more convenient.
A fix for that was applied last year. Which version of the compiler are you using? https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/process.d#L60
Thanks for your answer. I used dmd 2.051 which is still my system default due to compatibility issues (deprecated methods etc.). It didn't occur to me that it's (hopefully) the compiler version, especially because I saw the code snippet in process.d and didn't know it was a recent fix. I'll try the latest version.
Sep 20 2012
prev sibling parent reply "Chris" <wendlec tcd.ie> writes:
Thanks a million, Jacob! I have just tested it with the latest 
version of dmd and it works.
Sep 20 2012
parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2012-09-20 21:34, Chris wrote:
 Thanks a million, Jacob! I have just tested it with the latest version
 of dmd and it works.
No problem. You can use DVM if you need the to keep the old version of the compiler. https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm -- /Jacob Carlborg
Sep 20 2012
parent reply "Chris" <wendlec tcd.ie> writes:
On Friday, 21 September 2012 at 06:16:33 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
 On 2012-09-20 21:34, Chris wrote:
 Thanks a million, Jacob! I have just tested it with the latest 
 version
 of dmd and it works.
No problem. You can use DVM if you need the to keep the old version of the compiler. https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm
Thanks, that's cool. I really need something like that, because I still use a lot of features that are deprecated by now and are all over the place. The reason for this is that my project developed so fast and grew so big in a short period of time (D speeds up development) that it is hard to trace down all deprecated methods and replace them. Also, the library seems to be changing all the time anyway, so who knows whether or not the new methods will be deprecated again in a few months' time. But as the days are getting shorter I might find the time to skim through the code and finally do the dirty work I keep putting off.
Sep 21 2012
parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2012-09-21 10:56, Chris wrote:

 Thanks, that's cool. I really need something like that, because I still
 use a lot of features that are deprecated by now and are all over the
 place. The reason for this is that my project developed so fast and grew
 so big in a short period of time (D speeds up development) that it is
 hard to trace down all deprecated methods and replace them. Also, the
 library seems to be changing all the time anyway, so who knows whether
 or not the new methods will be deprecated again in a few months' time.
 But as the days are getting shorter I might find the time to skim
 through the code and finally do the dirty work I keep putting off.
That's been a quite annoying problem of D. But things have settle down quite a lot in recent times. Hopefully there shouldn't be that much breaking code these days. But if you're relaying on a bug that was fixed it will still break your code. -- /Jacob Carlborg
Sep 21 2012
parent reply "Chris" <wendlec tcd.ie> writes:
On Friday, 21 September 2012 at 09:50:06 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
 On 2012-09-21 10:56, Chris wrote:

 Thanks, that's cool. I really need something like that, 
 because I still
 use a lot of features that are deprecated by now and are all 
 over the
 place. The reason for this is that my project developed so 
 fast and grew
 so big in a short period of time (D speeds up development) 
 that it is
 hard to trace down all deprecated methods and replace them. 
 Also, the
 library seems to be changing all the time anyway, so who knows 
 whether
 or not the new methods will be deprecated again in a few 
 months' time.
 But as the days are getting shorter I might find the time to 
 skim
 through the code and finally do the dirty work I keep putting 
 off.
That's been a quite annoying problem of D. But things have settle down quite a lot in recent times. Hopefully there shouldn't be that much breaking code these days. But if you're relaying on a bug that was fixed it will still break your code.
Yeah, I see. I didn't realize it was a fixed bug, because I had checked process.d online and thought "Well, it should work". It didn't occur to me that the environ-thing for Mac OS X wasn't included in older versions. But I'll know better the next time! I hope you are right and things have settled down now, because I would really like to keep on using D and see it take off someday. I have been able to easily integrate my D code into Python, C, Lua (and now hopefully Java) programs and access C libraries easily from D, which - apart from all the nice features the language has to offer - is a real big plus. The only drawback is the lack of a fully-fledged cross-platform GUI, but that's a different story ...
Sep 21 2012
parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2012-09-21 16:42, Chris wrote:

 The only drawback is the lack of a fully-fledged
 cross-platform GUI, but that's a different story ...
Have a look at DWT, it's a port of the Java library SWT: https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/dwt http://dsource.org/projects/dwt I'm currently working on the Mac OS X port. -- /Jacob Carlborg
Sep 21 2012
parent "Chris" <wendlec tcd.ie > writes:
On Friday, 21 September 2012 at 17:02:50 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
 On 2012-09-21 16:42, Chris wrote:

 The only drawback is the lack of a fully-fledged
 cross-platform GUI, but that's a different story ...
Have a look at DWT, it's a port of the Java library SWT: https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/dwt http://dsource.org/projects/dwt I'm currently working on the Mac OS X port.
I know of DWT, but being a Mac user I am still not able to benefit from it as I would like to. But maximum respect that you are working on it. Keep it up!
Sep 21 2012