Visual D Build + DMD Bugginess = Bad

[Benjamin Thaut]

I'm also having problems with VisualD + DMD, I made a posting in the 
bugs forums about it, but unfortunately no one did answer yet:

http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php?server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D.bugs&artnum=25536

Am 13.10.2010 21:45, schrieb dsimcha:
> I've noticed that, when passed multiple files at once, DMD is generally buggy
> in ways that I can't reproduce in small test cases.  This includes things like
> magically ignoring __gshared variables, and not being able to convert a type
> to an alias to the same type, for example, not being able to convert a size_t
> to a uint on 32-bit, or not being able to convert a float[] to an R where R is
> a template parameter instantiated as float[].
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1.  Has anyone experienced similar things and if so are they further along
> than me at creating decent test cases?
>
> 2.  I'm used to using Code::Blocks, but want to switch to Visual D because it
> seems to work a lot better for the most part.  However, by default it seems to
> pass all project files to the compiler at once, where Code::Blocks compiles
> one file at a time.  This means I have to deal with DMD's bugginess when
> passed mutliple files at once.  Does anyone know how to make Visual D work
> Code::Blocks style, i.e. compile each file to an object file and link them
> afterwords?


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Kind Regards
Benjamin Thaut