Issue: Installing D

[Bill Baxter]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Chris Miller wrote:
>> Bill Baxter Wrote:
>>
>>> Chris Miller wrote:
>>>> I've been having some major issues for a long while now trying to 
>>>> install D.  Much of it is because of my library choices, but I don't 
>>>> have a choice as to what libraries I need.
>>>>
>>>> I've been working to try and get a working installation of D on my 
>>>> Windows Vista workstation.  Whether it's DMD or GDC I don't really 
>>>> care.  My biggest problem is that I need Tango, Derelect, and DDBI.  
>>>> I've totally given up on finding an IDE by now.
>>>>
>>>> I've been following the instructions online to the letter (the ones 
>>>> on digitalmars.com) and they keep throwing me grief.  The DInstaller 
>>>> project hasn't been good, since it installs everything to somewhere 
>>>> I can't find.  I got DSSS working once, which was nice...  but then 
>>>> when I tried to build a helloworld.d file it didn't work (tried 
>>>> using rebuild, which is what I would be building larger projects with).
>>>>
>>>> I can provide further documentation of what I've tried if you like, 
>>>> though it's really just me hitting wall after wall after wall.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your time, and thanks in advance for any pointers or help 
>>>> you can give!
>>> Do you think it's Vista-specific?
>>
>> I don't think so, since I'm running my shells as administrator.  I use 
>> Cygwin in addition to the normal Windows command prompt, switching to 
>> the less-capable windows prompt when necessary.
>>
>> I know I have something that almost works, since I got it to the point 
>> where I have a base install (Phobos, dmd, and nothing else) which can 
>> compile a blank D program (void main(){}) without any problems, and 
>> UAC doesn't try and badger me.
>>
>> It's getting Derelect, Tango*, and DDBI as well that's proving to be 
>> the hard part.  DWT would be nice, too, but I could do without it if I 
>> have to.  Rebuild is also sort of required, since I can't build all 
>> this stuff by hand all the time.  That's just raw insanity if you ask me!
>>
>> * Or Tangobos.  I just need the features from the listed libraries, I 
>> don't much care how I get 'em.  I just want to write code now...  I've 
>> been beating compilers around for a long time trying to get them to 
>> work.  If you have a working setup, man, consider yourself lucky!  You 
>> don't know how hard it is to see a beautiful language and not be able 
>> to take it for a spin!
> 
> 
> I have a Cygwin install too, but I don't trust it for doing D stuff.  Or 
> rather the D toolchain has so much crufty stuff in it that I don't trust 
> it to be able to compile from anywhere other than a good ole DOS prompt.
> 
> Speaking of crufy toolchain, which directory did you install D stuff 
> into?  I think C:\dmd is what's recommended -- specifically no spaces of 
> funky chars in your path.  I've been using f:\usr\pkg\d\dmd as my 
> install location for a long time with no troubles. (F:\ is a portable 
> drive.)
> 
> I've got other things installed mostly under the dmd imports dir:
> f:\usr\pkg\d\dmd\import\tangobos
> f:\usr\pkg\d\dmd\import\dfl
> f:\usr\pkg\d\dmd\import\tango
> f:\usr\pkg\d\dmd\import\derelict
> etc...
> 
> DSSS is under:
> 
> f:\usr\pkg\d\dsss
> 
> --bb

BTW... you must be a different Chris Miller than the one who wrote DFL, 
huh?  That would explain how Chris Miller was able to fix a bug I 
reported yesterday at the same time Chris Miller is unable to get a D 
install working at all. :-)  Confused me for a minute there...

--bb