What with all the IDE discussion going on, I thought I'd have a go at trying out Eclipse with the DDT plugin.

I'm running Eclipse 3.8 installed from system repos on Ubuntu 13.10.  Adding the DDT plugin as per the instructions here:
http://code.google.com/p/ddt/wiki/Installation

... seems to work fine.  Now I go to the Window menu and select Preferences, and then click on DDT > Compilers, and click the Search button.

The search process freezes when it discovers LDC, with the "Progress Information" window reading:

    Found 3007 - Searching /opt/ldc/bin/ldmd2

... and I'm forced to kill Eclipse manually.  Can anyone advise what the problem might be and how to correct it?

I asked this on the DDT Google Group but had no response, so thought I'd ask here.  Suffice to say that I think that, even if LDC isn't supported via DDT yet, it's pretty bad that the search for compilers should freeze up if LDC is installed.

On 2013-09-16 11:56, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> What with all the IDE discussion going on, I thought I'd have a go at
> trying out Eclipse with the DDT plugin.
>
> I'm running Eclipse 3.8 installed from system repos on Ubuntu 13.10.
> Adding the DDT plugin as per the instructions here:
> http://code.google.com/p/ddt/wiki/Installation
>
> ... seems to work fine.  Now I go to the Window menu and select
> Preferences, and then click on DDT > Compilers, and click the Search
> button.
>
> The search process freezes when it discovers LDC, with the "Progress
> Information" window reading:
>
>      Found 3007 - Searching /opt/ldc/bin/ldmd2
>
> ... and I'm forced to kill Eclipse manually.  Can anyone advise what the
> problem might be and how to correct it?
>
> I asked this on the DDT Google Group but had no response, so thought I'd
> ask here.  Suffice to say that I think that, even if LDC isn't supported
> via DDT yet, it's pretty bad that the search for compilers should freeze
> up if LDC is installed.

I think it's better that you manually add paths to the compiler, then searching for it, if possible,

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 16/09/13 12:58, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> I think it's better that you manually add paths to the compiler, then searching
> for it, if possible,

Seems like it's a known issue: http://code.google.com/p/ddt/issues/detail?id=10