Why we chose not to use D for our Linux project

[Jacob Carlborg]

Bill Lear wrote:
> [...]

First I can say that there are two runtime libraries available, the 
standard library Phobos and the alternative community developed runtime 
library Tango.

The problems you have with bud is that it's code is very old and D has 
introduced new keywords (ref, macro) since then which conflicts with the 
module and variable names. If you want to build bud then you have to 
change all the module and variable names that conflicts with the new 
keywords, this includes both source files and make files. But I think 
you should use dsss (see below) instead.

dmd is not 64bit compatible so you have to use gdc or dmd with 32bit 
libraries.

> % dinstall dbi
> DBI is now installed for D.  Have fun.

This can be done with the dsss tool:
dsss net install ddbi

This will download, compile and install ddbi.

I think the best and easiest way to get D (and Tango) working is 
downloading a tango bundle (D compiler with the Tango runtime library 
pre-compiled) which exists for the platforms osx,linux and windows and 
then download dsss as a pre-compiled binary.

dmd bundled with Tango for windows and linux: 
http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/DmdDownloads

gdc bundled with Tango for linux and osx:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/GdcDownloads

pre-compiled dsss binary for linux, windows and osx:
http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dsss/downloads/0.75/

I completely agree with you that the lack of documentation is a big 
problem, I know that it was for me when I started, and I had big 
problems before I found the right tools to use.

BTW I think ddbi is going through some changes and I've seen that other 
people have problems with it.