D on Visual Studio?

Ary Manzana ary at esperanto.org.ar
Wed Sep 12 15:43:47 PDT 2007


All of this is currently work in progress in Descent... Yes, you are 
right, a tool like what you describe is really needed for me too, and it 
doesn't exist yet... That's why we are making it. :-)

Martin Fuchs escribió:
>> Not to advertise or anything, but such an IDE does exist:
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent .
>> In fact, I think some of the other IDEs (Code::Blocks or Poseidon, maybe?)
>> have those features, too.
> 
> OK, Descent is quite usefull to write code in Eclipse with its convenient 
> source code editor. But what's missing here is the integration with 
> Eclipse's build system: You have to use rebuild.exe of DSSS in an aditional 
> external build configuration in order to compile your source code. Launching 
> and debugging the executable is also nit quite forward: You have to setup 
> the launch configuration by hand, the default behavior is not correct. And 
> when using the debugger DDBG in Eclipse, the same problems as in 
> Code::Blocks apply: Evaluating expressions works only for some very basic 
> variable types. If you want to display global variables, you have to prefix 
> the variable name with the module name by hand.
> 
> So currently it's all not quite ready to be used without problems. And in no 
> way comparable to using the VC++ IDE for C++ programs. 
> 
> 



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