How to get Visual D working with Derelict2?

[Mike Parker]

On 2/16/2012 5:39 AM, Chris Pons wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> I am new to D, and interested in using it with Derelict2 for game
> development. I plan on using Visual D, which I have installed already. I
> used the visual studio 2008 solution file to build the libraries and the
> .di files but unfortunately I do not know where to put these files once
> built or alternatively setup Visual D to recognize their location.

Right click on your project in the Solution Explorer, select 
"Properties", then "Configuration Properties"->DMD. Enter the path 
(absolute or relative) to your import directory (ex: if the DerelictUtil 
modules are in C:\foo\derelict\util, you would add C:\foo as the import 
path).

Now select "Configuration Properties"->Linker and enter the libraries in 
Library Files. You'll need to include the path like so:

C:\foo\libs\DerelictUtil.lib C:\foo\libs\DerelictGL.lib

Alternatively, you can add the following to the top of your source module:

pragma(lib, "C:\foo\libs\DerelictUtil.lib");
pragma(lib, "C:\foo\libs\DerelictGL.lib");
...

Makes sure to add every lib you need to link with.

>
> Lastly, how would I import these libraries in the code?

You don't import "libraries". You import "modules". The import statement 
tells DMD which source modules to look in for external declarations. It 
has absolutely nothing to do with library files. And if the root 
directory for the module package is not on the import path, it won't be 
able to find them.