Issue: Installing D

[Clay Smith]

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.
> 
> 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!

Here's what I do.

1) Install DMD and DMC from the .zip (DMC unzip first) as per 
instructions on the web.

2) Install latest stable tango release from the .zip on their page, 
overwrite necessary files. Tango is now installed.

3) Set up DSSS by unzipping in D:\dsss

4) Learn how to add dsss.exe, dmd.exe, dmc.exe to your PATH

5) Learn how to create dsss .conf files

6) Install ddbg, add to PATH http://ddbg.mainia.de/doc.html

7) Use 'cmd' prompt, type 'dsss build' to build your software. For an 
editor, I like DScite.

8) You should be good to go.