Visual D 0.51.0 - semantic engine based on dmd frontend

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 20/01/2020 14:48, kinke wrote:
> On Sunday, 19 January 2020 at 07:04:35 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>> If you switch "Item Type" of one of the D files to use the "D
>> Compiler", you can set the import path to "..\ldc" so the engine can
>> find imported files.
> 
> After figuring that one has to open the file properties via right-click
> (i.e., not available in the quick properties or however they are
> called), that worked, thx.
> 
> It doesn't get past the 'Analyzing...' stage though (in tooltips), no
> [IntelliSense] errors show up in the errors pane.

That can happen when the semantic analysis asserts and crashes the
background process.

It works better if you also configure the LDCshared project to define
version identifiers MARS and IN_LLVM (separated by a ';' as in
"MARS;IN_LLVM"), set the string import path "../ldc/res" and disable
warnings for deprecations.