Hi,

I have uploaded a new version of Visual D. Apart from changes to the build system, the semantic analysis is now considered stable enough to leave experimental state. I guess too many people just didn't know that it existed at all, because it was buried somewhere in the global options. Although it hasn't improved a lot (no UFCS, no class templates, no operator overloading) it seems quite useful.

Some excerpts from the change log:

  * a number of bug fixes and improvements to the build system, e.g.
    - new linker option to disable using global and standard
      library search paths
    - added preliminary support for upcoming dmd win64 compiler
    - added console application project template with
      configurations for DMD and GDC for Win32 and x86
  * semantic analysis now enabled by default
  * "goto definition" now uses semantic analysis to find declaration
  * added build project to build Visual D from within Visual Studio
    itself without the need to modify makefiles
  * now installed as an "extension" to VS 2010 and VS 2012
  * fixed spurious crashes due to bug in precise garbage collection

The full list of changes can be found here: http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/VersionHistory

Visual D is a Visual Studio package providing both project management and language services for the D programming language. It works with Visual Studio 2005-12 as well as the free Visual Studio Shells.

The Visual D installer can be downloaded from its website at http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald

Visual D is completely written in D, the source code is available at github (https://github.com/rainers/visuald) and dsource (http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/browser/trunk).

Rainer

Cool, thank you very much!

On Monday, 3 December 2012 at 18:58:44 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> I have uploaded a new version of Visual D. Apart from changes to the build system, the semantic analysis is now considered stable enough to leave experimental state. I guess too many people just didn't know that it existed at all, because it was buried somewhere in the global options. Although it hasn't improved a lot (no UFCS, no class templates, no operator overloading) it seems quite useful.
>

On Monday, 3 December 2012 at 18:58:44 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have uploaded a new version of Visual D. Apart from changes to the build system, the semantic analysis is now considered stable enough to leave experimental state.

Great work! thank you very much.

On Monday, 3 December 2012 at 18:58:44 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have uploaded a new version of Visual D. Apart from changes to the build system, the semantic analysis is now considered stable enough to leave experimental state. I guess too many people just didn't know that it existed at all, because it was buried somewhere in the global options. Although it hasn't improved a lot (no UFCS, no class templates, no operator overloading) it seems quite useful.
>
> Some excerpts from the change log:
>
>   * a number of bug fixes and improvements to the build system, e.g.
>     - new linker option to disable using global and standard
>       library search paths
>     - added preliminary support for upcoming dmd win64 compiler
>     - added console application project template with
>       configurations for DMD and GDC for Win32 and x86
>   * semantic analysis now enabled by default
>   * "goto definition" now uses semantic analysis to find declaration
>   * added build project to build Visual D from within Visual Studio
>     itself without the need to modify makefiles
>   * now installed as an "extension" to VS 2010 and VS 2012
>   * fixed spurious crashes due to bug in precise garbage collection
>
> The full list of changes can be found here: http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/VersionHistory
>
> Visual D is a Visual Studio package providing both project management and language services for the D programming language. It works with Visual Studio 2005-12 as well as the free Visual Studio Shells.
>
> The Visual D installer can be downloaded from its website at http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald
>
> Visual D is completely written in D, the source code is available at github (https://github.com/rainers/visuald) and dsource (http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/browser/trunk).
>
> Rainer

Great work, trying to install it still today!

After switching to this version it started to build my windows app as a console one. It seems to ignore the subsystem choice, I don't see any mention of -L/SUBSYSTEM: in generated build scripts anymore.

Previously I had 0.3.33, I guess, which compiled and linked in one go, not in separate steps, it worked fine.

On Tuesday, 1 January 2013 at 17:11:31 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
> After switching to this version it started to build my windows app as a console one. It seems to ignore the subsystem choice, I don't see any mention of -L/SUBSYSTEM: in generated build scripts anymore.
>
> Previously I had 0.3.33, I guess, which compiled and linked in one go, not in separate steps, it worked fine.

+1
I have the same problem.But it was alright when I used 0.3.34.

On 01.01.2013 18:45, Zhenya wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 January 2013 at 17:11:31 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
>> After switching to this version it started to build my windows app as
>> a console one. It seems to ignore the subsystem choice, I don't see
>> any mention of -L/SUBSYSTEM: in generated build scripts anymore.
>>
>> Previously I had 0.3.33, I guess, which compiled and linked in one go,
>> not in separate steps, it worked fine.
>
> +1
> I have the same problem.But it was alright when I used 0.3.34.

Fixed here: http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/browser/downloads/VisualD-v0.3.36rc2.exe

> Fixed here: http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/browser/downloads/VisualD-v0.3.36rc2.exe

Fixed indeed. Thanks a lot!