• Mike Brown (18/18) Aug 17 2019 Hi All,
• Andre Pany (19/37) Aug 17 2019 Hi Mike,
• Mike Brown (12/56) Aug 25 2019 Hi Andre,

Mike Brown <mikey.be gmail.com> writes:

Hi All,

I've tried installing and setting up Dlang a few times now. I'm 
struggling to get it reliable and to a decent environment in 
place.

I don't really want to make this thread about specific issues - 
Id very much like to know if there's a decent tutorial or guide 
to setup Dlang?

* I'd like to get the basic's down solid (One of my issues is a 
linker issue on release but not debug, etc)

* A decent IDE which allows debugging, understanding the stack 
traces, step through etc?

* The package management, Should I be using DUB or doing 
packaging etc with make files etc?

I appriciate some of this is down to choice, but an idiots guide 
and recommended practises - to setting up the above so I can just 
get on with coding would be great.

Kind Regards,
Mike

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

On Saturday, 17 August 2019 at 20:42:41 UTC, Mike Brown wrote:
 Hi All,

 I've tried installing and setting up Dlang a few times now. I'm 
 struggling to get it reliable and to a decent environment in 
 place.

 I don't really want to make this thread about specific issues - 
 Id very much like to know if there's a decent tutorial or guide 
 to setup Dlang?

 * I'd like to get the basic's down solid (One of my issues is a 
 linker issue on release but not debug, etc)

 * A decent IDE which allows debugging, understanding the stack 
 traces, step through etc?

 * The package management, Should I be using DUB or doing 
 packaging etc with make files etc?

 I appriciate some of this is down to choice, but an idiots 
 guide and recommended practises - to setting up the above so I 
 can just get on with coding would be great.

 Kind Regards,
 Mike

Hi Mike,

Which OS do you target? Setting up DMD on e.g. Ubuntu is just 
installing package build-essentials and installing the dmd deb 
file.
On Windows you just extract the 7z file and add the bin path to 
th PATH environment variable.

I tried so far IntelliJ IDEA and Visual Studio Code. Both are 
multi platform and free to use. Both supports debugging but here 
the details really depends on your OS.
For Visual Studio Code there are even different D plugins 
available. I used vscode-dlang and it was just a fantastic 
experience.
(I still prefer the kind of development flow IntelliJ provides, 
but Intellij D support is more complex to setup).

If you target Windows, there is also Visual Studio, this plugin 
has no dub integration as far as I know.

Kind regards
Andre

Mike Brown <mikey.be gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 17 August 2019 at 21:26:27 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
 On Saturday, 17 August 2019 at 20:42:41 UTC, Mike Brown wrote:
 Hi All,

 I've tried installing and setting up Dlang a few times now. 
 I'm struggling to get it reliable and to a decent environment 
 in place.

 I don't really want to make this thread about specific issues 
 - Id very much like to know if there's a decent tutorial or 
 guide to setup Dlang?

 * I'd like to get the basic's down solid (One of my issues is 
 a linker issue on release but not debug, etc)

 * A decent IDE which allows debugging, understanding the stack 
 traces, step through etc?

 * The package management, Should I be using DUB or doing 
 packaging etc with make files etc?

 I appriciate some of this is down to choice, but an idiots 
 guide and recommended practises - to setting up the above so I 
 can just get on with coding would be great.

 Kind Regards,
 Mike

 Hi Mike,

 Which OS do you target? Setting up DMD on e.g. Ubuntu is just 
 installing package build-essentials and installing the dmd deb 
 file.
 On Windows you just extract the 7z file and add the bin path to 
 th PATH environment variable.

 I tried so far IntelliJ IDEA and Visual Studio Code. Both are 
 multi platform and free to use. Both supports debugging but 
 here the details really depends on your OS.
 For Visual Studio Code there are even different D plugins 
 available. I used vscode-dlang and it was just a fantastic 
 experience.
 (I still prefer the kind of development flow IntelliJ provides, 
 but Intellij D support is more complex to setup).

 If you target Windows, there is also Visual Studio, this plugin 
 has no dub integration as far as I know.

 Kind regards
 Andre

Hi Andre,

Thank you for your reply! Windows is my target system. I have 
(hopefully) installed the d compiler toolchain, and Visual Studio 
Code - along with the recommended extension.

I'm wondering on the build systems, I have read up on rdmd and 
dub. I think these are two seperate competing build systems? 
Which should I use, for which situations?

I'd like to use Vibe, so I guess I need to use DUB? Can I use 
rdmd with dub dependencys?

Kind Regards,
Mike