Compile from within Visual Studio

Xerpher · Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 13

Is there currently a way to compile D code straight from the Visual Studio IDE?

Xerpher · Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 13

Anybody there? *hears echo*

jcc7 · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 657 Location: Muskogee, OK, USA

This might be helpful:
http://www.wikiservice.at/d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport#MicrosoftVisualC60

I don't use Visual Studio, so I can't test it out.

Xerpher · Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 13

The instructions didn't seem to match up at all... possibly because I have .NET (aka, v7) now and not v6

jcc7 · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 657 Location: Muskogee, OK, USA

On a related subject, Arcane Jill described a method to debug D apps with MS Visual C++ editor in the general D newsgroup: digitalmars.D:1608.

Arcane Jill · Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Posts: 10

That was I. But I don't use VC++ for writing code, only for debugging it. It's good for single-stepping through, seeing variable values, etc.

For writing code, I use TextPad, a cool text editor you can find at www.textpad.com. It can do syntax highlighting for D (you need the d.syn file I made, but I can send you that, or you could make your own). It also has definable tools, so I can just click on a menu item I've called "D - build Debug" and it will make my entire project without my having to leave that environment.

A separate command prompt window semi-permanently open in the exe directory serves as a quick and easy means to run the compiled and built program. (You can also persuade TextPad to run it, but in this case it's better not to, in case the program under development crashes).

Finally, VC++ is there to step through the code.

This may not be the best way of working, but it works for me. I'm very comfortable with TextPad, and I love being able to choose which words get highlighted and which don't (I can have my own function names colored).

Arcane Jill

Nova · Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 23

jcc7 · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 657 Location: Muskogee, OK, USA

brad · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 10:56 pm Post subject:

And here's to hoping your (Arcane Jill's) Textpad file is more up-to-date than mine. I think I advertise DMD 0.65 as the last appropriate version. Yikes, I'm old. You can still find it at http://www.penguinblotter.com/d, but wow, that's an old site I haven't thought about in a while.

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Nova · Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 23

Thanks, I've got it all setup now and love it =)