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Igor
Posted in reply to Laurent Tréguier
| On Thursday, 26 July 2018 at 09:42:13 UTC, Laurent Tréguier wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 at 20:03:49 UTC, Igor wrote:
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>> And so here I am, hoping that someone can explain how to set everything up so I get Windows like experience while working with VSCode on Linux (or some other editor).
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> This extension enables debugging with GDB/LLDB : https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=webfreak.debug.
> Since you installed DMD and LDC using the install.sh script, you will need to manually set the `d.stdlibPath` value in VSCode's settings...
Thanks Laurent. It is working now. For future reference I will write all steps here.
This guide assumes DMD is installed using the install script:
curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s dmd
~/dlang/install.sh install dmd
~/dlang/install.sh install ldc
If you want to permanently set PATH and other needed variables you need to copy them from activate script of one of installed compilers into your .profile file. If you are on KDE then it should go in ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/ldc.sh. This is how my ldc.sh looks like since I have KDE and I want ldc compiler by default:
# set PATH so it includes LDC compiler
if [ -d "$HOME/dlang/ldc-1.10.0" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/dlang/ldc-1.10.0/bin${PATH:+:}${PATH:-}"
export PATH="$HOME/git/workspace-d/bin${PATH:+:}${PATH:-}"
export LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/dlang/ldc-1.10.0/lib${LIBRARY_PATH:+:}${LIBRARY_PATH:-}"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/dlang/ldc-1.10.0/lib${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:}${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:-}"
export DMD=ldmd2
export DC=ldc2
fi
After that install VSCode if it is not already installed. Open it and go to Extensions tab (last icon on the left). Search for "webfreak". You will see "D Language utility extension pack" which contains all you need for the DLang development. In the description you can see what individual plugins it installs and what they do so if you choose you can only install some of them. "D Programming Language (code-d)" is required for autocomplete and "Native Debug" for debugging. Once you install that and reload VSCode go to File-Preferences-Settings (Ctrl+,). In the right part of the window, under User Settings you will see some dlang settings are already added. Bellow them I also added this:
"d.dmdPath": "ldmd2",
"d.stdlibPath": [
"/home/igors/dlang/dmd-2.081.1/druntime/import",
"/home/igors/dlang/dmd-2.081.1/phobos"
],
First line is needed because I want to use LDC compiler. After that you can open View-Command Pallete (Ctrl+Shift+P) and type code-d and see all kind of commands related to it and one of them should be "Create new project". This will init your project with a single d code file and basic dub configuration for building it. If at that point you press F5 you will be offered to add a GDB (or LLDB if you have clang installed) configuration for debugging. Once you do that you will get a launch.json file under .vscode dir in your project and there you should add this line:
"preLaunchTask": "buildAndRun",
After that you should select Tasks-Configure Tasks and in the drop down select dub: Run option. That will create a tasks.json file for building and running your project. You should add this line so launch.json can reference it:
"identifier": "buildAndRun",
If at this point you press F5 to debug your program it will be built but debugger will probably report an error how it couldn't find what to debug. You need to see where you program was build (by default in the root of your project) and then put its name in launch.json under target property. For example my project is called dtest so I set it up like this:
"target": "./dtest",
At this point it should be clear what goes where and how it works so you can now edit your json files and configure them to your liking.
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