Recommend: IDE and GUI library

[XavierAP via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 20:00:32 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
> If you're building your app with VisualD (as opposed to 
> invoking dub externally), make sure you've set up import paths 
> in project settings properly.

Thanks. With dub everything works straight forward. I just call 
it blindly since it's the first time I use dub and I'm not sure 
everything it's supposed to do. Still I want to be able to be 
able to work and debug from Visual Studio.

For this I found out how to clone the dependencies, sorry about 
that... (Only from the command line... Anyone recommends better 
free Windows Git gui clients than GitHub Desktop?) Import paths 
seem correctly setup in the project files from the repo, as I 
would expect. And once the dependency code is in its place it 
does build, both the library and the example applications.

The problem I was having after all this was a runtime exception, 
but it happens only on 32-bit. Switching to 64-bit building and 
debugging works out of the box (after having cloned the 
subrepos). Here I have no idea if I have a drive issue, in any 
case 64-bit is enough for me.
BTW the exception is:
"derelict.util.exception.SymbolLoadException Failed to load 
OpenGL symbol [glEnableClientStateiEXT] "

> Also, if you use "minimal" configuration of DLangUI (which I 
> recommend) you can remove mentions of SDL and GL from its 
> dependencies in its dub.json, this way there are less things 
> for compiler and VisualD to look for.

I understand that in order to do this from Visual Studio, 
according to the instructions at github.com/buggins/dlangui, I 
should use configurations DebugMinimal instead of Debug, etc. But 
these configurations are not defined; I wonder if this 
documentation is out of sync with the current code. Otherwise I 
also though OpenGL wouldn't be used unless the version identifier 
USE_OPENGL was defined, but apparently it is not in VS as far as 
I can see?

So in the end I'm not very sure whether OpenGL is kicking in in 
64-bit when it works, or in general how to disable it (from 
Visual Studio instead of dub) -- or what are the consequences for 
performance or whatever. For now I can work like this and if I 
have additional problems that prevent me from advancing I will 
research it further...

Thanks also @aberba and everyone.