D on Windows - linker question

[Andrew]

On Monday, 21 October 2013 at 04:38:05 UTC, evilrat wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 October 2013 at 21:47:53 UTC, Erik van Velzen 
> wrote:
>> My goal was to learn D and Direct3D at the same time.
>>
>> I've tried to set up DMD to do this, but I keep running into 
>> issues that the available DirectX11 and win32 headers are 
>> incomplete, or won't compile (tried both dmd 2.063 and 2.064, 
>> they halt on different type errors), or won't link.
>>
>> To be fair, these are only a few errors, but when the linker 
>> spews out some obfuscated function name I really don't know 
>> what to do.
>>
>> Will I have more luck with GDC? Or should I try to make 
>> headers on my own incrementally? (or take the easy route and 
>> use C++?)
>
> i'm currently trying to get up 
> DirectX(d3d10(x),d3d11(x),xaudio2,x3daudio,d3dmath) up and 
> running in free time, but i constantly encounter serious 
> problems on my way. now i have some weird problems with COM(no 
> COM - no DirectX).
>
> so i don't recommend anyone even try it(DirectX) now, unless 
> one is truly skilled with C++
>
> p.s. for working win32 with dmd 2.063.2 go there(don't forget 
> to convert .lib's to OMF, use coffimplib from digitalmars ftp) 
> - 
> https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/DWinProgramming/tree/master/WindowsAPI

What it has to do with C++?