Hi,

I've tried to install D in both Eclipse Mars and Neon. Loading it directly from the Help/Marketplace gave me all the right prompts, but after I restarted eclipse, D was not installed and I couldn't find it in preferences nor when I tried to open a new project.

I got the same result when I used the Eclipse Help/install new programs option, downloaded the osx binary tarball from https://code.dlang.org/download. the file I downloaded was dub-0.9.25-osx-x86_64.tar.gz. I also tried downloading DMD from https://dlang.org/dmd-osx.html. This correctly installed a command line compiler, and gave correct results when I ran the hello.d program.

There must be a better way!

I'll be overwhelmed with sweat if somebody can either clarify how I can make the installation or hold my hand as I go through installation.

Thanks.

On 15/06/2016 17:38, Mark wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've tried to install D in both Eclipse Mars and Neon. Loading it
> directly from the Help/Marketplace gave me all the right prompts, but
> after I restarted eclipse, D was not installed and I couldn't find it in
> preferences nor when I tried to open a new project.
>
> I got the same result when I used the Eclipse Help/install new programs
> option, downloaded the osx binary tarball from
> https://code.dlang.org/download. the file I downloaded was
> dub-0.9.25-osx-x86_64.tar.gz. I also tried downloading DMD from
> https://dlang.org/dmd-osx.html. This correctly installed a command line
> compiler, and gave correct results when I ran the hello.d program.
>
> There must be a better way!
>
> I'll be overwhelmed with sweat if somebody can either clarify how I can
> make the installation or hold my hand as I go through installation.
>
> Thanks.

I'm not sure I understood you correctly, but whre you expect D itself (D compiler, DUB) to be installed as part of the DDT installation? DDT is not meant to do that. Quoting from the configuration section:

"A D installation is required for most IDE functionality, as well as the DUB tool."

(https://github.com/DDT-IDE/DDT/blob/latest/documentation/UserGuide.md#configuration)


Sure, it's not as integrated as VisualStudio or even Eclipse JDT, but it's not really a big issue, to have to download these tools separately. (and DUB will soon be included with D distro)

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Bruno Medeiros
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