Win GUI Single Exe - Newbie

[Paul]

On Sunday, 8 April 2012 at 10:26:10 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-04-07 23:34, vmars316 wrote:
>> On Saturday, 7 April 2012 at 12:25:27 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
>> wrote:
>>> On 2012-04-06 17:37, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>>
>>> Building stand alone executables with DWT works great. DWT 
>>> doesn't
>>> depend on any third party libraries, only on the system 
>>> libraries.
>>
>> I downloaded and installed dinstaller.exe using this HowTo:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSugYSC5hrE&feature=related
>> What would I need to have installed to run DWT?
>
> 1. Clone this git repository: 
> https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/dwt
> 2. Pull down the submodules "base" and 
> "org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86" by running:
>
> $ git submodule init
> $ git submodule update
>
> 3. Build the library by running:
>
> $ rake base swt
>
> Ruby and rake is needed for the above command. Or the source 
> code can be used directly. Both "base" and "swt" is needed.
>
> These import libraries are also needed (for some things):
>
>> How about VisualD, is it any good?
>> Any recommends would be greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks...vmars
>
> I've heard it's good, but I haven't used it myself.

Is installing and using DWT really this involved?  I spent hours 
figuring out github, cloning the repository (I think).  The git 
submodule commands never ran w/o errors.  I was quite frustrated.
Thanks for any additional comments.  Do you know of a tutorial 
that deals with this installation and goes through a basic DWT 
hello world....all in on tutorial?