hi,
i'm kinda new to D and tried to install the dig library. the problem i had is
that i get compiler errors caused by new casting functions within the newest
version of the D compiler (well, at least that's my suggestion)

i tried to change them all manually by writing a cast(type).... but i can't get
the librarys running.

although i have a problem on how to install librarys correctly (what folder
structure should i use)

opengl from DedicateD isn't working correctly also, maybe caused by failing dependencies...

so what i'm searching for is a short tutorial on how to install libs correctly and how to stop the cast- error

thanks!

MofuX

MofuX wrote:
> hi,
> i'm kinda new to D and tried to install the dig library. the problem i had is
> that i get compiler errors caused by new casting functions within the newest
> version of the D compiler (well, at least that's my suggestion)

dig is horribly outdated. Check out Joel Anderson's  undig at http://www.dsource.org/ (or alternatively his home page at http://badmama.com.au/~anderson/).


> opengl from DedicateD isn't working correctly also, maybe caused by failing
> dependencies...

The stuff from DedicateD is also outdated, and there are several updated versions of Pavel's opengl floating around. Undig includes a working version. If you need/want to use OGL without linking to the import library, my Derelict project at dsource.org is another option.


> so what i'm searching for is a short tutorial on how to install libs correctly

The easiest way is to drop them in the dmd\lib directory, but I wouldn't recommend that. What some do is to keep all of the libs they use in a common directory (other than dmd/lib) and then add the full path to the LIB environment variable in dm/bin/sc.ini.

I usually just dump the libs into a common directory like I mentioned above, but rather than editing sc.ini I do something like this in my Makefile:

DINC = -IC:\path\to\somelib\source -IC:\path\to\somelib2\source
DFLAGS = -v -debug
LIBS.PATH = C:\dev\d\lib
LIBS = $(LIB.PATH)\somelib.lib $(LIB.PATH)\somelib2.lib
dmd file.d $(LIBS) $(DFLAGS) $(DINC)