Visual D Build + DMD Bugginess = Bad

[Nick Sabalausky]

"dsimcha" <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:i9529m$2d4b$1 at digitalmars.com...
> I've noticed that, when passed multiple files at once, DMD is generally 
> buggy
> in ways that I can't reproduce in small test cases.  This includes things 
> like
> magically ignoring __gshared variables, and not being able to convert a 
> type
> to an alias to the same type, for example, not being able to convert a 
> size_t
> to a uint on 32-bit, or not being able to convert a float[] to an R where 
> R is
> a template parameter instantiated as float[].
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1.  Has anyone experienced similar things and if so are they further along
> than me at creating decent test cases?
>
> 2.  I'm used to using Code::Blocks, but want to switch to Visual D because 
> it
> seems to work a lot better for the most part.  However, by default it 
> seems to
> pass all project files to the compiler at once, where Code::Blocks 
> compiles
> one file at a time.  This means I have to deal with DMD's bugginess when
> passed mutliple files at once.  Does anyone know how to make Visual D work
> Code::Blocks style, i.e. compile each file to an object file and link them
> afterwords?

Don't they support setting up custom tools? I always do that and just define 
my own command line calls.