Windows Text Viewer in D

[IchorDev]

On Thursday, 9 April 2026 at 01:27:47 UTC, Paul wrote:
> I have tried various approachs to create what is listed in the 
> subject line - Windows-based text viewer.  I've tried Visual-D, 
> VSCode, DMD, LDC, Dlangui, arsd, GtkD, DMD, LDC, and ...of 
> course AI.  I'm embarrassed to say that I've yet to get a 
> window to open and show a text file.  Could someone point me to 
> a simple solution to start with?

Use SDL3 ([bindings](https://code.dlang.org/packages/bindbc-sdl)) 
to create a window and draw into it. You can render text by using 
FreeType 2 or SDL3_ttf.

> Some goals are:
> -as little dependency on specific IDE's or compilers, if 
> possible.  Just include all the dependencies on the command 
> line, if possible.

Use dub or redub. You really don’t want to include dependencies 
on the command line, it’s a pain.