[CrypticMetaphor88]

I've searched for it in a lot of places, created the d include files, used htod, some other things as well, but I always seem to get errors of some kind. It would be too numerous to no go trough the list of all the things I've tried.

I'm probably missing something obvious, and many of you probably already have used libraries written in C, so I'll just ask the following:

What would I have to do to compile a d program that uses the SDL library to load a simple window? And maybe write "hello" on the canvas or whatever.

sdl library can be found here:
http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php

[doob]

Have a look at http://dsource.org/projects/derelict/ it has bindings for SDL and various other game/media related libraries.

[CrypticMetaphor88]

I tried that already, doesn't work. I'm using D2 so had to download derelict2 (d1 doesn't work), and I get some kind of linking errors with derelict2 but I think that is because I'm doing something wrong there.

But that's not the point, what I'm trying to say is that I want to be able to make a simple SDL program with D without relying on other libraries, I want to understand how it works.

You know the proverb:
"Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime."

[doob]

If you want to everything yourself then you have to create bindings to the functions in SDL you want to use. What that means is you have to translate the SDL header files to D. Have a look at: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/htomodule.html and http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/interfaceToC.html . Then you just need to link to the SDL library. Derelict links dynamically with its libraries instead of statically and it's using function pointers instead of function declarations.

[jcc7]