Getting Started

Downloading

There are essentially two ways to get Arc 0.2, although DSSS is the recommended way to obtain ArcLib:

• DSSS net install arclib-phobos-stable or DSSS net install arclib-tango-stable
• Using an svn client pointed at http://svn.dsource.org/projects/arclib/branches/arc02/phobos/arclib (Phobos version) or http://svn.dsource.org/projects/arclib/branches/arc02/tango/arclib (Tango version)

Installation with DSSS

Installing with DSSS is as simple as running

dsss net install arclib-phobos-stable
or
dsss net install arclib-tango-stable

The first command only compiles and installs the arc library, the second two grab the example programs, unit tests, and the media data that accompanies them.

If you got the zip archive or checked out the sources from the SVN repository but still have DSSS installed, you can still use DSSS to build and install the programs with the following commands...

dsss build
dsss install

Compiling programs using Arc

With rebuild or bud, simply set your path up like so

• main folder/
  • arc/
  • derelict/
  • main.d file

The compile with command 'bud main.d -Rn -full -clean -exec' or 'rebuild -full -clean -exec'

With DSSS, you do not need to set up the path like above. Simply have

• main folder/
  • main.d

and create the following DSSS conf file

[main.d]

then invoke the command 'dsss build', and DSSS will automatically use the installed version of arclib to compile with.