Issue: Installing D

[Jacob Carlborg]

Chris Miller wrote:
> I've been having some major issues for a long while now trying to install D.  Much of it is because of my library choices, but I don't have a choice as to what libraries I need.
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> I've been working to try and get a working installation of D on my Windows Vista workstation.  Whether it's DMD or GDC I don't really care.  My biggest problem is that I need Tango, Derelect, and DDBI.  I've totally given up on finding an IDE by now.
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> I've been following the instructions online to the letter (the ones on digitalmars.com) and they keep throwing me grief.  The DInstaller project hasn't been good, since it installs everything to somewhere I can't find.  I got DSSS working once, which was nice...  but then when I tried to build a helloworld.d file it didn't work (tried using rebuild, which is what I would be building larger projects with).
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> I can provide further documentation of what I've tried if you like, though it's really just me hitting wall after wall after wall.
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> Thanks for your time, and thanks in advance for any pointers or help you can give!

I have previously written two installation guides

D, DSSS, Tango and Derelict - http://www.gravitygame.se/denvironment.rhtml

D, DSSS, Tango and DWT - 
http://www.dsource.org/projects/dwt/wiki/Installation