Can't figure out how to use the compiler

anonymous via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Apr 21 14:49:38 PDT 2014


On Monday, 21 April 2014 at 19:40:01 UTC, Plorf wrote:
> I downloaded the DMD Windows compiler, installed it in the 
> default directory, added its location to the system path, 
> restarted my computer and wrote a sample "hello, world" 
> program, and it won't compile; instead it says "Error: cannot 
> read file hello.d". My computer is 64-bit, if that matters at 
> all. Can someone please explain how to get the DMD compiler to 
> work or provide some links? This has really been frustrating 
> me. Thanks.

Does `dmd` without any arguments print the usual kerfuffle
(version, copyright, usage)?

Could it be that the file is called "hello.d.txt" and the
extension is hidden? What does `dir hello.d` say?


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