Does Visual D actually work?

[Brett]

On Monday, 7 October 2019 at 15:02:36 UTC, Just Dave wrote:
> I downloaded it after experiencing debugging issues with 
> CodeBlocks (it wouldn't attach the provided debugger). I 
> downloaded Visual D and after some fiddling with Visual Studio 
> 2019 not supporting third party templates in my version (had to 
> update it), I haven't been able to get Visual D to compile 
> anything. It looks like it doesn't know where phobos lives?
>
> I'm getting this: std.file.FileException at std\file.d(872) <my 
> project directory>: The system cannot find the path specified.
>
> I've tried configuring both 'Additional Import Paths' and/or 
> 'String Import Paths' under Compiler in properties and 'Library 
> Search Path' in Linker (not sure why I would need this...but I 
> was desperate).
>
> I keep getting a popup that says: 'The operation could not be 
> completed. The parameter is incorrect'.
>
> It would help if there was a setup guide for this instead of 
> assuming it all works. What IDE should I be using on Windows, 
> because so far the ones I've tried are not even close to 
> working out of the box (my bare minimum for 'working out of the 
> box' would be to at least build and be able to reference the 
> standard library).
>
> When dmd installed i put itself on my C:\ drive in a folder 
> called 'D'. I've done zero custom here. I just let all of the 
> installers do their thing.
>
> Advice?

Yes it works...

You can have visual D install the compilers from the 
options(tools). So if it' snot finding anything it will(or 
should) using that method.