A Postmortem of Game Programming with Digital Mars’ D Programming Language
by Jonathan Breuer

Contents   Prologue   Installing   Getting work done   My experiences   Beginning work: Dir2   DERELICT game library   Various Notes on D   Wrapup   Source code   Printable version   Discuss this article

Getting work done

I like using Textpad as my editor with a modified D.syn file. The standard Textpad download D.SYN is missing some keywords. I also opened two cmd windows with the following batch file

@ECHO OFF
SET PATH=%PATH%;"C:\DMD\bin";"C:\DMD\dmc\bin"
CMD ; Run a command line and don't return

The batch file was configured to run in c:\dmd\projects.

My first cmd window was used for compiles and my second was used for running my programs. This resulted in some mouse clicking, but left everything open. Both BUD and dmd also have the "execute on successful compile" option, so having just one cmd window works as well. I also opened folder windows to the Phobos standard library source and to the documentation and had Textpad taking up ¾ the screen.

A good test of whether your install worked is to run your command window, then navigate to c:\dmd\samples\d\ and run:

shell all.sh

My experiences