Making an .exe that executes source file inside itself.

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On Wednesday, 25 April 2018 at 19:54:26 UTC, BoQsc wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 April 2018 at 19:43:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 19:19:58 BoQsc via 
>> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>>> So there has been idea I've got for around few months now: 
>>> making
>>> a software which executable would contain a source file.
>>> A software that anyone could modify by opening an executable 
>>> and
>>> quickly change a few lines of it, rerun an executable, see the
>>> changes.
>>>
>>> Could this be easily possible with D language, considering 
>>> that sources files can be ran without long slow compilation 
>>> process?
>>
>> The normal way to do that is to just write a script. In the 
>> case of D, you can just use rdmd to do it. e.g. if you're on a 
>> POSIX system, just put
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env rdmd
>>
>> at the top of your .d file and chmod it so that it's 
>> executable, and it'll run like any other script.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> Thank you Jonathan for a response.
> I was aware of this, and it certainly perfectly works where 
> command line/terminal interface is the main tool to control the 
> system, a good example would be linux/gnu distributions and 
> macOS.
> However in Windows while installing D language, I noticed that 
> .d source file extension is not associated with neither D 
> compiler (dmd.exe) nor D script interpretator (rdmd.exe)
> So they can't be ran directly by clicking on those, nor they 
> have any icons that show that these source codes are actually 
> executable. This is a huge problem, because people that are not 
> aware of D language migh be harder to understand that source 
> script could be executable, at least - without help from some 
> more experienced user.

If the purpose is to make scripts run by clicking them you can 
assign a file type to .d files.

On Windows 10. 
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-set-default-programs-and-file-types-in-windows-10/

Doing so would make the script engine the default program instead 
of a text editor so you might not want to. Or maybe assign .dxe 
and changing the filename before running.