Hello,

I apologize if this is the wrong forum to post this question, but I couldn't find a corresponding learn mailing list for DMDScript.

I wanted to play around with DMDScript but cant seem to get started.  I
downloaded the source and attempted to make it via:
    $ make -f osx.mak

But I get the following error:
    textgen.d(132): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression ~ some
string ~ of type string to char[]

Am I doing the right thing? Or how do I go about getting building 'ds' so I can run simpleton scripts?

Josh

On 18/06/2011 07:35, Joshua Niehus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I apologize if this is the wrong forum to post this question, but I
> couldn't find a corresponding learn mailing list for DMDScript.
>
> I wanted to play around with DMDScript but cant seem to get started.  I
> downloaded the source and attempted to make it via:
>      $ make -f osx.mak
>
> But I get the following error:
>      textgen.d(132): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression ~ some
> string ~ of type string to char[]
> Am I doing the right thing? Or how do I go about getting building 'ds'
> so I can run simpleton scripts?
>
> Josh

dmdscript is designed for D1, you're using D2. Someone has updated dmdscript for D2, there's an announcement on digitalmars.D.announce about it somewhere. Using that version will fix your issues.

-- 
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/

On 18/06/2011 21:50, Robert Clipsham wrote:
> On 18/06/2011 07:35, Joshua Niehus wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I apologize if this is the wrong forum to post this question, but I
>> couldn't find a corresponding learn mailing list for DMDScript.
>>
>> I wanted to play around with DMDScript but cant seem to get started. I
>> downloaded the source and attempted to make it via:
>> $ make -f osx.mak
>>
>> But I get the following error:
>> textgen.d(132): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression ~ some
>> string ~ of type string to char[]
>> Am I doing the right thing? Or how do I go about getting building 'ds'
>> so I can run simpleton scripts?
>>
>> Josh
>
> dmdscript is designed for D1, you're using D2. Someone has updated
> dmdscript for D2, there's an announcement on digitalmars.D.announce
> about it somewhere. Using that version will fix your issues.
>

http://dsource.org/projects/dmdscript-2/wiki <= there you go. I should probably note that if you plan on doing anything serious, you'd be better off writing a D wrapper for V8 or one of the other modern javascript engines.

-- 
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/

On 18.06.2011 10:35, Joshua Niehus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I apologize if this is the wrong forum to post this question, but I couldn't find a corresponding learn mailing list for DMDScript.
>
> I wanted to play around with DMDScript but cant seem to get started.  I downloaded the source and attempted to make it via:
>     $ make -f osx.mak
>
> But I get the following error:
>     textgen.d(132): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression ~ some string ~ of type string to char[]
> Am I doing the right thing? Or how do I go about getting building 'ds' so I can run simpleton scripts?
>
> Josh

It's pretty much like Robert says: original  source for DMDscript is for D1 and wasn't update for quite some time.
Still the D2 port should work with no problems. And even though I did it in the first place, the only benefit of it right now is that it's written in D and thus could be integrated with D projects slightly better. Still if you are up for some hacking give it a try.
As for speed, yeah, it's something like around 20-200x slower at various workloads (e.g. numerics in JavaScript and such), so wouldn't recommend if you have performance in mind.

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky