how to install?

[Kris]

Hi Glen,

Just tried this myself and had no difficulties, so I'll list the steps I 
went through:

1) download from the web-site. I used this link: 
http://dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/DmdDownloads  and clicked on where it 
says "repository snapshot as a zip (including DMD 1.025)"

2) made a fresh folder called '\d' and expanded the zip files over there 
(create a folder wherever you need it). This added a series of folders to 
'\d', one if which is '\d\bin'

3) opened a console window in \d

4) I set my exe path to this \d\bin directory, using "set path=\d\bin"

5) did a "cd \d\example\console"

6) did a "jake hello.d"

And all was fine.

I think you perhaps got into a situation where the sc.ini being picked up 
did not match the installation? This might happen if you have multiple 
compilers in your 'path' settings, for example.

Hope this helps ...




"glen worstell" <glen at worstell.com> wrote in message 
news:fphluh$21g7$1 at digitalmars.com...
> I've spent hours trying to install d and related stuff on windows xp so I 
> can
> run the "hello world" example. The docs on the internet that I have found 
> are
> incomplete or incorrect. Walter Bright kindly replied to my emails, but he
> seems not to know how to do it either. The nice book "Learning to Tango 
> with
> d" has a section on installing, but it is incorrect also. I got as far as 
> this
> error message when trying to compile:
>
>>jake hello.d
> object.d: module object cannot read file 'object.d'
>
> same result with >dmd hello.d
>
> I am not a newbie (except to d) and I know about paths, environment 
> variables,
> .ini files, etc. For my first test I don't care which library I use.
>
> Could someone post a one-paragraph description of what to download, where 
> to
> put it (what directory structure, etc), what mods to make to path or 
> sc,ini, etc?
>
> It should not be that difficult to describe. I've installed (without help
> beyond the installation instructions) and written significant programs in 
> c,
> c#, lua, python, and, long ago, several other languages.
>
> Thanks in advance to some kind person...
>
> g.
>