codeblocks for D2 on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 10.04.2011 03:43, schrieb Frank:
> All:
> 
> I am attempting to learn D2 and needed to set up an IDE. From what I
> can see, CodeBlocks is the best we have at the moment. I had trouble
> getting it set up, so I wanted to share what I've done to make it
> work. I'm sure it's not the "right" way, so anyone who knows better,
> please chime in.
> 
> Go to Settings -> Compiler and Debugger -> Other settings -> Advanced
> Options and delete all the linker commands (save them somewhere to be
> able to restore later, just in case) and change the compile single
> file to object setting to:
> 
> $compiler -v $options $includes $file -of$exe_dir/$exe_name
> 
> You may also be able to specify dmd as the linker instead of gcc and
> have better luck ... I will try that later since I assume there is an
> advantage to linking in a separate step.
> 
> Also, under Settings -> Search Directories, add:
> 
> /usr/include/d/dmd/druntime
> /usr/include/d/dmd/phobos
> 
> One last thing ... the command above is building 32-bit. I tested
> adding -m64 and it worked fine and built a 64-bit executable. Test by
> executing "file {filename}.o" and you'll get output like:
> 
> TestD.o: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux),
> not stripped
> 
> This seems to work, but as I say, I'm brand new to D ... coming from
> Java where everything is dynamically linked and tool support is
> excellent. Hope it helps some other newbies.
> 

Thanks for writing that down (I personally never got CB to really work
with D ;))
However: Codeblocks is *not* the best, it doesn't support D properly, it
only sometimes happens to kind of work because D is somewhat similar to C++.

On Linux I'd suggest to use Eclipse+DDT instead, see
http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/ddt/
When I tested it, autocompletion and "find definition of this"
(ctrl-click) worked well.

Cheers,
- Daniel