Boneheaded question regarding compilation...

[Mike Shah]

On Monday, 1 April 2024 at 21:23:50 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:
>
> Huge fan of Mike Shah's YouTube videos regarding D and his 
> latest for D conference:
>
> https://mshah.io/conf/24/DConf%20%20Online%202024%20_%20The%20Case%20for%20Graphics%20Programming%20in%20Dlang.pdf
>
> So I installed github desktop app and cloned his Talks repo. 
> There is a build command commented out at the top of the main.d 
> file which I've been trying to compile, via the command line:
>
> C:\Users\kheas\Documents\Talks\2024\dconf_online\hello_triangle>dmd -g -J. main.d ./glad/gl/*.d -L-L/usr/local/lib -L-lglfw3 -of=prog && ./prog
> Error: cannot find input file `.\glad\gl\*.d`
> import path[0] = C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin64\..\..\src\phobos
> import path[1] = 
> C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin64\..\..\src\druntime\import
>
> I'm using a Windows 11 machine so I thought that maybe the 
> syntax was for Linux environment. But replacing all the '/' 
> with '\' did not work.

An easier fix may be perhaps to just use 'dub' and install the 
glfw dependency. In my talk, I did everything from scratch (my 
preferred way), though I suspect using dub with glfw-d 
(https://code.dlang.org/packages/glfw-d) may provide less 
resistance.