• Andre Pany (20/20) Oct 09 Hi,
• Dejan Lekic (6/9) Oct 09 Why would you do that? CLion, being based on IDEA, can simply
• Andre (11/20) Oct 09 Yes I know the plugin, I created some pull requests for the
• Andre Pany (15/35) Oct 15 My findings:

Andre Pany <andre s-e-a-p.de> writes:

Hi,
as CLion is now free for hobby projects it is quite interesting 
IDE for me.
I try to get as much as possible working on a barebone CLion 
installation on Windows.

- Syntax highlighting for D is easy due to Textmate Bundle for D
- I registered *.D as as C files in the IDE, this enables me to 
set a breakoint
   in a source code line.

- Syntax check and Code completion is at the moment not 
interesting, Copilot does
   a pretty good job here.

Now the difficult part. CLion comes on Windows with GDB (MinGW 
Toolchain) and
LLDB 9.0 (Visual Studio Toolchain). I assume in theory it should 
be possible
to compile an x64 application with DMD and debug it with LLDB on 
Windows?

Kind regards
André

Dejan Lekic <dejan.lekic gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 9 October 2025 at 15:45:40 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
 Hi,
 as CLion is now free for hobby projects it is quite interesting 
 IDE for me.

Why would you do that? CLion, being based on IDEA, can simply 
have D Language Plugin installed... I use IDEA (Ultimate) for 
Python, D, Terraform, etc... Plugin page: 
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8115-d-language

In case you wonder, it works with the Community Edition as well.

Andre <andre s-e-a-p.de> writes:

On Thursday, 9 October 2025 at 16:00:58 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
 On Thursday, 9 October 2025 at 15:45:40 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
 Hi,
 as CLion is now free for hobby projects it is quite 
 interesting IDE for me.

 Why would you do that? CLion, being based on IDEA, can simply 
 have D Language Plugin installed... I use IDEA (Ultimate) for 
 Python, D, Terraform, etc... Plugin page: 
 https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8115-d-language

 In case you wonder, it works with the Community Edition as well.

Yes I know the plugin, I created some pull requests for the 
plugin in the past. The plugin only works for IntelliJ, not for 
CLion. The maintainers do a great job, but there a some broken 
parts, including debugging which makes the plugin at this point 
in time not usable.

Therefore if I can customise a stable barebone CLion, which comes 
with an integrated gcc and lddb debugger, this looks quite 
interesting for me.

Kind regards
André

Andre Pany <andre s-e-a-p.de> writes:

On Thursday, 9 October 2025 at 15:45:40 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
 Hi,
 as CLion is now free for hobby projects it is quite interesting 
 IDE for me.
 I try to get as much as possible working on a barebone CLion 
 installation on Windows.

 - Syntax highlighting for D is easy due to Textmate Bundle for D
 - I registered *.D as as C files in the IDE, this enables me to 
 set a breakoint
   in a source code line.

 - Syntax check and Code completion is at the moment not 
 interesting, Copilot does
   a pretty good job here.

 Now the difficult part. CLion comes on Windows with GDB (MinGW 
 Toolchain) and
 LLDB 9.0 (Visual Studio Toolchain). I assume in theory it 
 should be possible
 to compile an x64 application with DMD and debug it with LLDB 
 on Windows?

 Kind regards
 André

My findings:

it works fine by using LDC instead of DMD. The embedded LLDB 9.0 
works in limited way.
The plugin "lsp4ij" also adds support for Debug Adapter Protocol. 
Therefore a recent LLDB (lldb-dap) can be used. The next CLion 
version 2025.3 will also add builtin support for DAP.

=> On windows after downloading LLVM, debugging will not work out 
of the box. The python "Windows embeddable package 3.10.10" needs 
to be downloaded and extracted to the LLVM bin directory.

=> Breakpoints only working with argument -gc

=> By using the DAP, *.d extension also not need to be registered 
as C++ file

Kind regards
André