Manual Build and Install of Tango and DMD

With these instructions, the newest available DMD and Tango will be installed (to C:\dmd).

1. Download DMD.

• download the latest DMD 1.0 compiler.
• extract the zip file
• create a C:\dmd folder
• move windows\bin and windows\lib from the zip file to C:\dmd

2. Download DMC.

• extract the zip file
• move the containing "dm" directory to C:\

3. Modify the environment path:

• Go to "Control Panel" => "System Properties" => "Advanced" => "Environment Variables"
• Append ";C:\dmd\bin;C:\dm\bin" to the "Path" variable.
• Open up the windows console and type "dmd" and "dmc" to check if the programs are available.

4. Get and install Tango.

• Go to the Tango source browser
• click on "Zip Archive" to download the newest Tango sources
• extract the zip folder and move the trunk folder to C:\ (the directory can be deleted in the end)
• open up a Command Line and type:

  cd C:\trunk
  .\build\bin\win32\bob.exe -vu -r=dmd -c=dmd .
  copy tango.lib C:\dmd\lib
  mkdir C:\dmd\import
  mkdir C:\dmd\import\tango
  xcopy C:\trunk\tango C:\dmd\import\tango /e
  xcopy C:\trunk\object.di C:\dmd\import
  del C:\trunk
  

5. Configure DMD

• Modify the Environment section of C:\dmd\bin\sc.in to look like this:

[Environment]
LIB="%@P%\..\lib"
DFLAGS="-I%@P%\..\import" -version=Tango -defaultlib=tango.lib -debuglib=tango.lib
LINKCMD=%@P%\link.exe

6. Testing

• create a text file called "main.d":

module main;

import tango.io.Stdout;

void main(char[][] args)
{
  Stdout("Hello World!").newline;
}

• in a windows console, go to the directory you created main.d and type

dmd main.d
.\main.exe

• "Hello World!" should be printed on the screen
• Have fun! :-)