Hi all.

I have been trying (quite badly) to get started with D for a while.

On my first attempt I gave up before even compiling Hello World, because it was too difficult to find out how to even compile a program in Windows.  (I know.. I said I was bad at this..)

Second time around I tried harder, and wrote a Windows batch file to make compiling and running my code easier.  No messing around with PATH variables or things like that, too difficult.

I have been playing around with this for a year or so now, and thought it might be useful to someone else trying to learn D.  So here is a batch file that will automatically compile and run your D code.

If you're interested: save http://wogone.com/code/D2.BAT.TXT to your computer, rename to D2.BAT, then run D2 from a command prompt for further instructions.

Hope someone finds it useful, and not too buggy!  Any comments or improvements are more than welcome.

Am 03.05.2012 14:31, schrieb Iain Staffell:
> Hi all.
>
> I have been trying (quite badly) to get started with D for a while.
>
> On my first attempt I gave up before even compiling Hello World, because
> it was too difficult to find out how to even compile a program in
> Windows. (I know.. I said I was bad at this..)
>
> Second time around I tried harder, and wrote a Windows batch file to
> make compiling and running my code easier. No messing around with PATH
> variables or things like that, too difficult.
>
> I have been playing around with this for a year or so now, and thought
> it might be useful to someone else trying to learn D. So here is a batch
> file that will automatically compile and run your D code.
>
> If you're interested: save http://wogone.com/code/D2.BAT.TXT to your
> computer, rename to D2.BAT, then run D2 from a command prompt for
> further instructions.
>
> Hope someone finds it useful, and not too buggy! Any comments or
> improvements are more than welcome.
rdmd? http://dlang.org/rdmd.html

Are you a visual studio user? Tried VisualD?
If not, tried Mono-D?

On 3 May 2012 15:31, Iain Staffell <staffell@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I have been trying (quite badly) to get started with D for a while.
>
> On my first attempt I gave up before even compiling Hello World, because
> it was too difficult to find out how to even compile a program in Windows.
>  (I know.. I said I was bad at this..)
>
> Second time around I tried harder, and wrote a Windows batch file to make compiling and running my code easier.  No messing around with PATH variables or things like that, too difficult.
>
> I have been playing around with this for a year or so now, and thought it might be useful to someone else trying to learn D.  So here is a batch file that will automatically compile and run your D code.
>
> If you're interested: save http://wogone.com/code/D2.BAT.**TXT<http://wogone.com/code/D2.BAT.TXT>to your computer, rename to D2.BAT, then run D2 from a command prompt for
> further instructions.
>
> Hope someone finds it useful, and not too buggy!  Any comments or improvements are more than welcome.
>

On Thu, 03 May 2012 15:29:07 +0200, David <d@dav1d.de> wrote:

> Am 03.05.2012 14:31, schrieb Iain Staffell:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I have been trying (quite badly) to get started with D for a while.
>>
>> On my first attempt I gave up before even compiling Hello World, because
>> it was too difficult to find out how to even compile a program in
>> Windows. (I know.. I said I was bad at this..)
>>
>> Second time around I tried harder, and wrote a Windows batch file to
>> make compiling and running my code easier. No messing around with PATH
>> variables or things like that, too difficult.
>>
>> I have been playing around with this for a year or so now, and thought
>> it might be useful to someone else trying to learn D. So here is a batch
>> file that will automatically compile and run your D code.
>>
>> If you're interested: save http://wogone.com/code/D2.BAT.TXT to your
>> computer, rename to D2.BAT, then run D2 from a command prompt for
>> further instructions.
>>
>> Hope someone finds it useful, and not too buggy! Any comments or
>> improvements are more than welcome.
> rdmd? http://dlang.org/rdmd.html

And dvm: https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dvm

On Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 18:55:17 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
> On Thu, 03 May 2012 15:29:07 +0200, David <d@dav1d.de> wrote:
>> rdmd? http://dlang.org/rdmd.html
>
> And dvm: https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dvm

Thanks both for the suggestions.  RDMD looks useful, but am I right thinking I can't run it from anywhere unless I'm able to mess with PATH variables?

I can't figure out where to get started with DVM, so will give that a miss.

On Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 16:29:48 UTC, Manu wrote:
> Are you a visual studio user? Tried VisualD?
> If not, tried Mono-D?
>

EditPad is as far as I go!  I tried using Code::Blocks about a year ago, but couldn't get it to play nicely with the compiler...

On 2012-05-04 12:37, Iain Staffell wrote:

> Thanks both for the suggestions. RDMD looks useful, but am I right
> thinking I can't run it from anywhere unless I'm able to mess with PATH
> variables?

DVM will handle this for you.

> I can't figure out where to get started with DVM, so will give that a miss.

simendsjo linked to the new URL, where no pre-compile binaries exist yet. Use this old URL until the next release:

https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm/wiki/Home

1. Download the tool: https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm/downloads
2. run "dvm.exe install dvm"
3. open a new console window
4. run "dvm install 2.059"
5. run "dvm use 2.059"
6. now "dmd" and "rdmd" will be available

You can also add the "-d" flag to the "use" command. This will set the compiler as the default compiler. Instructions are available at the URL above.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg