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D.gnu - How do I start ? Total Newbee

reply zvi jmail.com writes:
Hi all, I do have experiance with FileMaker, and some RAD tools. recently
started to learn C++ (GUI 
Platform) going quit well, to write my own extentions for my tools, some how I
bumped into DigitalMars 
site, it looks very promising but for this kind of work (shell,linking and so
forth) I'm a total newbee. Can 
somebody give me exactly what to down load, where and who to install? Computer
I'm mostly using is 
MAC OSX 10.3.9 G5 (currently)
Ps. If I'll get it doing properly I might write a text editor to get things
easiar going.
Thanks, a million. zvi
Jul 18 2006
parent reply =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
zvi wrote:


 Hi all, I do have experiance with FileMaker, and some RAD tools. recently
 started to learn C++ (GUI 
 Platform) going quit well, to write my own extentions for my tools, some how I
 bumped into DigitalMars 
 site, it looks very promising but for this kind of work (shell,linking and so
 forth) I'm a total newbee. Can 
 somebody give me exactly what to down load, where and who to install? Computer
 I'm mostly using is 
 MAC OSX 10.3.9 G5 (currently)


1) Install the Xcode Tools 1.5, available from Apple

2) http://prdownloads.sf.net/gdcmac/gdc-0.18-mac-10.3.dmg

3) http://gdcmac.sourceforge.net/GettingStarted.pdf

HTH,
--anders
Jul 19 2006
parent reply zvi jmail.com writes:
Thanks,

1) Install the Xcode Tools 1.5, available from Apple

2) http://prdownloads.sf.net/gdcmac/gdc-0.18-mac-10.3.dmg

3) http://gdcmac.sourceforge.net/GettingStarted.pdf


I followed instructions, downloded, did a general (not custom) install, and the
same with the second 
link. And nothing happening. Looks like i'm still missing something

HTH,
--anders
Jul 19 2006
parent reply =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
zvi wrote:


 I followed instructions, downloded, did a general (not custom) install, and the
 same with the second link. And nothing happening.
 Looks like i'm still missing something


If you use a Terminal window, it should reply something like this:


gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


                      gdc (GCC) 3.3.6 (gdc 0.18, using dmd 0.157)
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

If those two programs are not present, then the installation failed.

--anders



     when used as a command, it just represents the prompt)
Jul 20 2006
parent reply %u <zvi gmail.com> writes:
Hi and thanks, I finaly got it to work and this what I got

gcc --versiongcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

gdc --version
gdc (GCC) 3.3.6 (gdc 0.19, using dmd 0.162) (looks like a different build)
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

But when I enter the command...
thats what I get,
gdc nothing.d
gdc: nothing.d: No such file or directory
gdc: no input files .
Do I need to save in a certain dir? O change dir before I write this command?
TIA
Oct 29 2006
parent reply =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
%u wrote:


 Hi and thanks, I finaly got it to work and this what I got
 
 gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)
 
 gdc (GCC) 3.3.6 (gdc 0.19, using dmd 0.162) (looks like a different build)


Those two are as close as it gets for Mac OS X 10.3, since the
Apple version of GCC 3.3 doesn't build with the GDC patches...

Looks good.


 Do I need to save in a certain dir? O change dir before I write this command?


Yes, you need to be in the same directory as the file. Like gcc ?

--anders
Oct 29 2006
parent reply ZVI <zvi gmail.com> writes:
== Quote from Anders_F_Björklund (afb algonet.se)'s article

 zvi wrote:
 Those two are as close as it gets for Mac OS X 10.3, since the
 Apple version of GCC 3.3 doesn't build with the GDC patches...
 Looks good.


so are you trying to say that it wouldn't work? or I need something else, or?

 --anders



Looks good.
Oct 29 2006
parent reply =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
ZVI wrote:


Those two are as close as it gets for Mac OS X 10.3, since the
Apple version of GCC 3.3 doesn't build with the GDC patches...


 
 so are you trying to say that it wouldn't work? or I need something else, or?


No, I am saying that it Looks Good and that it should work OK... :-)

For Mac OS X 10.4, it is possible to compile the Apple/Mac GCC version
with D support but on Mac OS X 10.3 we have to use the FSF GCC version.
So that was why the versions of gcc and gdc didn't match on Mac OS X,
but it shouldn't be of any problem - since both are based on GCC 3.3 ?

As a side note I haven't packaged up the Xcode 2.4 compiler with GDC
in "gdcmac", but you can download the Xcode 2.3 compiler from "dgcc".
(i.e. the GDC version available for Mac OS X 10.4 on gdcmac site are 
currently made from the FSF GCC 4.0.1, and not from the Apple/Mac GCC)

Again, it shouldn't make much of a difference which GCC variant is used.

--anders
Oct 29 2006
parent reply ZVI <zvi gmail.com> writes:
== Quote from Anders_F_Björklund (afb algonet.se)'s article

 so are you trying to say that it wouldn't work? or I need something else, or?


 No, I am saying that it Looks Good and that it should work OK... :-)


Thanks, but back to the previous problem, it doesn't work.
this is what I get when I change dir to where the file is and
 put "gdmd nothing.d"
 gdc: nothing.d: No such file or directory
 gdc: no input files
what might be the problem?
I tryed the same thing with a "c" and "cpp" file and it works good. I just
can't figure it out.
TIA ( a million) ZVI


 --anders
Oct 30 2006
parent reply =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
ZVI wrote:


 Thanks, but back to the previous problem, it doesn't work.
 this is what I get when I change dir to where the file is and
  put "gdmd nothing.d"
  gdc: nothing.d: No such file or directory
  gdc: no input files
 what might be the problem?


What are you trying to accomplish ? Are you following the little 
"GettingStarted" introduction I wrote ?  Does "nothing.d" exist ?

Can you list it in the Terminal, and view it with: "more nothing.d"
There should be no reason why it would work with .c/.cpp and not .d

--anders
Oct 30 2006
parent ZVI <Zvi gmail.com> writes:
== Quote from Anders_F_Björklund (afb algonet.se)'s article

 ZVI wrote:
 What are you trying to accomplish ? Are you following the little
 "GettingStarted" introduction I wrote ?  Does "nothing.d" exist ?
 Can you list it in the Terminal, and view it with: "more nothing.d"


THANKS, that was the problem, a hidden extention sneaked to the file, removed
it and... working
beautiful
I very much appreciate your help.
ZVI
Oct 31 2006