February 13, 2005 greets from a FreeBSD game hobbyist (some tips, maybe?) | ||||
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Hey guys, glad to be here. In my free time, I'm working on a computer game in C on FreeBSD. It's very early in development, of course, and I'd like to use D instead. I'm rather new to it (just found this site today), but it's sort of a WTH thing. :D I like C, but I really don't like header files at all. Makeheaders solves some things, but I'd like to see what D can do for me. I won't even get into C++. So firstly, I'd like to know of any success or failure with D on FreeBSD. It should work, right? What all should I download? Secondly, who else here is working on a game? Anyone on gamedev.net? Anyway, I'm looking forward to your response(s?), and I'll probably make my over here if I need some help. Take 'er easy, Ben |
February 13, 2005 Re: greets from a FreeBSD game hobbyist (some tips, maybe?) | ||||
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Posted in reply to Benjamin Heath | On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 01:38:45 +0000, Benjamin Heath wrote: > Hey guys, glad to be here. > > In my free time, I'm working on a computer game in C on FreeBSD. It's very early in development, of course, and I'd like to use D instead. I'm rather new to it (just found this site today), but it's sort of a WTH thing. :D I like C, but I really don't like header files at all. Makeheaders solves some things, but I'd like to see what D can do for me. I won't even get into C++. > > So firstly, I'd like to know of any success or failure with D on FreeBSD. It should work, right? What all should I download? Secondly, who else here is working on a game? Anyone on gamedev.net? > > Anyway, I'm looking forward to your response(s?), and I'll probably make my over here if I need some help. > > Take 'er easy, > Ben Hello Ben, Welcome to D. You should continue this thread in the digitalmars.d newsgroup. This one is deprecated; its current usefulness is as a historical reference. Concerning FreeBSD, I don't know who has tried getting things to work on that platform. It shouldn't be too difficult, though, with the availability of gdc, a D language frontend for gcc. You can find out more about gdc in the D.gnu newsgroup (for downloads and installation instructions). Since there are ports to OS X and Solaris, I imagine an x86 FreeBSD port should be very straight forward. You may also like to take a look at dsource.org for an idea of what kind of D projects people are working on. Game programming is certainly something D is capable of: if you search the digitalmars.d newsgroup you find some interesting references to game development. For an example of a slick game written in D, go the Japanese sight (the current leaders in this area): http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/windows/tf_e.html Good Luck! - John R. PS. You may also be able to run the linux dmd executable under FreeBSD using FreeBSD's linux binary compatibility layer. |
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