July 09, 2002
Has anyone set their system up for writing D Software
I Have set up a F: drive and unzipped the distribution to it
There must be a best way to develop and text D Software

Is it possible to use an editor and batch files for compiling and testing etc..

Some help would be appreciated
Best regards Trevor Croll


July 09, 2002
"D news" <trevorcroll@fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:age35s$21dv$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Has anyone set their system up for writing D Software

Just about everyone in the newsgroup has (although OS's may vary).

> I Have set up a F: drive and unzipped the distribution to it There must be a best way to develop and text (sic) D Software

Did you mean...
There must be a best way to develop and test D Software.

This is a large topic and I don't believe can be covered properly in a newsgroup. There are many books devoted to programming practices, project development life cycles and Object Orientated programming principles.  Most things that can be applied to C\C++ can also be applied to D. So you have a huge resource of information already available. You'll just have to be aware of the minor differences, which is where this newsgroup becomes invaluable.

> Is it possible to use an editor and batch files for compiling and testing etc..

Yes

A possible editor for D is, http://www.scintilla.org/SciTEDownload.html. You'll need to set it up for compliation and syntax highlighting using C/C++/html as a template.

It's best if you can install D to c:\dmd\... or at least if you use f: (f:\dmd\...) and also you need to install the DMC++ compiler.

Some set up details are included here, http://www.digitalmars.com/d/alpha.html

> Some help would be appreciated
> Best regards Trevor Croll
>

Have fun...