Installing

Google is everyone’s best friend. “D Programming Language Download” drops you to a page with all the downloads. I was running Windows XP Pro in the hotel room, so I grabbed DMC.ZIP and DMD.ZIP. (The Linux people will want to grab the DMD.ZIP for Linux and must have GCC lying around. Presumably you’ll know where to find that. ) You might also want to find CandyDoc because it’s pretty.

It’s a quick download, which is nice because I’m on dialup at home.

I initially wanted to run the programs from the desktop, so that I could easily clean everything off when I left the hotel. That didn’t work out in the brief time I spent fighting, but the following files seem to be important if you want to bash D into running from a non-root location: DMD\bin\sc.ini and DMD\source\d\all.sh. There’s probably more to it, but I gave up. At least some of the tools don’t handle file paths with spaces in them.

I still didn’t want several folders littering my C: root, so I extracted the DMD.zip into c:\DMD and the DMC.ZIP into c:\DMD\DMC. This required modifying the LINKCMD in DMD\BIN\SC.INI to reflect the moved DMC folder. (On a second attempt at home, I extracted everything into c:\dmd\... \bin, \src, \include. You have to update sc.ini again to reflect D's settings, but it worked.)

I created a projects folder under c:\dmd\projects.





Getting work done