I downloaded the DMD Windows compiler, installed it in the default directory, added its location to the system path, restarted my computer and wrote a sample "hello, world" program, and it won't compile; instead it says "Error: cannot read file hello.d". My computer is 64-bit, if that matters at all. Can someone please explain how to get the DMD compiler to work or provide some links? This has really been frustrating me. Thanks.

On Monday, 21 April 2014 at 19:40:01 UTC, Plorf wrote:
> I downloaded the DMD Windows compiler, installed it in the default directory, added its location to the system path, restarted my computer and wrote a sample "hello, world" program, and it won't compile; instead it says "Error: cannot read file hello.d". My computer is 64-bit, if that matters at all. Can someone please explain how to get the DMD compiler to work or provide some links? This has really been frustrating me. Thanks.

Are you in the same directory as your hello.d? It seems like you're not giving the compiler correct path to your file.

> Are you in the same directory as your hello.d? It seems like you're not giving the compiler correct path to your file.

My file was located on my desktop, and my current directory was the desktop, but "dmd hello.d" gave me an error. Is that what you mean?

On Monday, 21 April 2014 at 19:40:01 UTC, Plorf wrote:
> I downloaded the DMD Windows compiler, installed it in the default directory, added its location to the system path, restarted my computer and wrote a sample "hello, world" program, and it won't compile; instead it says "Error: cannot read file hello.d". My computer is 64-bit, if that matters at all. Can someone please explain how to get the DMD compiler to work or provide some links? This has really been frustrating me. Thanks.

Does `dmd` without any arguments print the usual kerfuffle
(version, copyright, usage)?

Could it be that the file is called "hello.d.txt" and the
extension is hidden? What does `dir hello.d` say?

On Monday, 21 April 2014 at 21:49:39 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> On Monday, 21 April 2014 at 19:40:01 UTC, Plorf wrote:
>> I downloaded the DMD Windows compiler, installed it in the default directory, added its location to the system path, restarted my computer and wrote a sample "hello, world" program, and it won't compile; instead it says "Error: cannot read file hello.d". My computer is 64-bit, if that matters at all. Can someone please explain how to get the DMD compiler to work or provide some links? This has really been frustrating me. Thanks.
>
> Does `dmd` without any arguments print the usual kerfuffle
> (version, copyright, usage)?
>
> Could it be that the file is called "hello.d.txt" and the
> extension is hidden? What does `dir hello.d` say?

Sorry about that last comment. Apparently I installed it correctly and everything, it's just that Notepad++ saves files as .txt unless you surround the file name and extension in quotes, like so: "hello.d" Thanks a lot for the help.