• DLimited (23/27) Sep 20 2014 Alright, I need some help because I feel mighty stupid at the
• Rainer Schuetze (11/36) Sep 21 2014 The DMD installation dir should be set to C:\dmd\dmd2 only, without the
• DLimited (2/13) Sep 22 2014 Thanks a lot for your help, that actually solved everything and I

"DLimited" <tanojoshu googlemail.com> writes:

Alright, I need some help because I feel mighty stupid at the 
moment. Please do keep in mind that I just now started up with D 
and Visual Studio in general.

I'm using VS2012 Ultimate with Visual D. During my test project I 
noticed I did not get any value help / displayed info on neither 
the Gtk framework, nor the standard library.

So, it seems to me all the displayed documentation is stored in 
some JSON file somewhere. The "Generate Phobos Browse Info" is 
supposed to generate them for the phobos library, however it 
fails with the following message:

 Building phobos JSON browse information files to 
 C:\Users\DLimited\AppData\Roaming\VisualD\json\
 dmd.exe not found in DMDInstallDir=C:\dmd\dmd2\windows\bin\ or 
 through PATH


DMD is actually located in that directory, though - as well as in 
the path. Starting a random command line knows dmd; also my test 
project compiles (and it can't possibly compile without a 
compiler, can it?)

I have no idea what the actual generation process is, so I can't 
do it "manually" and place in the JSON import path either.

So, I'd love some help with this, I am at my wits end. I have no 
idea what the problem could be, because the displayed cause 
cannot be true unless the command fucks up the execution 
environment somehow. It also cannot be a read/write error because 
writing to AppData is always allowed.

Kind regards,

DLimited

Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:

On 20.09.2014 20:08, DLimited wrote:
 Alright, I need some help because I feel mighty stupid at the moment.
 Please do keep in mind that I just now started up with D and Visual
 Studio in general.

 I'm using VS2012 Ultimate with Visual D. During my test project I
 noticed I did not get any value help / displayed info on neither the Gtk
 framework, nor the standard library.

 So, it seems to me all the displayed documentation is stored in some
 JSON file somewhere. The "Generate Phobos Browse Info" is supposed to
 generate them for the phobos library, however it fails with the
 following message:

 Building phobos JSON browse information files to
 C:\Users\DLimited\AppData\Roaming\VisualD\json\
 dmd.exe not found in DMDInstallDir=C:\dmd\dmd2\windows\bin\ or
 through PATH



The DMD installation dir should be set to C:\dmd\dmd2 only, without the 
windows\bin sub-directories. I'm not sure why PATH doesn't work, but 
finding the imports will probably rely on the installation dir anyway.

If you use the default semantic analysis engine (Alexander Bothe's 
engine enabled in the Intellisense settings), JSON information should 
not be necessary anymore and are only used as a fallback if semantic 
analysis fails.

It is important to have the import directories setup correctly (for 
phobos, it is derived from the installation directory; for gtk, it 
should probably be part of the project settings).



 DMD is actually located in that directory, though - as well as in the
 path. Starting a random command line knows dmd; also my test project
 compiles (and it can't possibly compile without a compiler, can it?)

 I have no idea what the actual generation process is, so I can't do it
 "manually" and place in the JSON import path either.

 So, I'd love some help with this, I am at my wits end. I have no idea
 what the problem could be, because the displayed cause cannot be true
 unless the command fucks up the execution environment somehow. It also
 cannot be a read/write error because writing to AppData is always allowed.

 Kind regards,

 DLimited

"DLimited" <tanojoshu googlemail.com> writes:

 The DMD installation dir should be set to C:\dmd\dmd2 only, 
 without the windows\bin sub-directories. I'm not sure why PATH 
 doesn't work, but finding the imports will probably rely on the 
 installation dir anyway.

 If you use the default semantic analysis engine (Alexander 
 Bothe's engine enabled in the Intellisense settings), JSON 
 information should not be necessary anymore and are only used 
 as a fallback if semantic analysis fails.

 It is important to have the import directories setup correctly 
 (for phobos, it is derived from the installation directory; for 
 gtk, it should probably be part of the project settings).

Thanks a lot for your help, that actually solved everything and I 
now have value help and all the other goodies available!