Hi
I just installed D 2.x.
* Improvement potential #1 -- installer description.
It was not clear to me that the first download is a full offline
installer. In ignorance I used the one that downloads from web. The web
page can possibly be mucho improved! :-)
* Improvement potential
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Alf P. Steinbach <
alf.p.steinbach+use...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just installed D 2.x.
>
>
> * Improvement potential #1 -- installer description.
>
> It was not clear to me that the first download is a full offline
> installer. In ignorance I used the one
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Alf P. Steinbach <
> alf.p.steinbach+use...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I just installed D 2.x.
>>
>>
>> * Improvement potential #1 -- installer description.
>>
>> It was not clear to me that the firs
Hi Alf! Welcome!
On 2/12/2012 4:02 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
Hi
I just installed D 2.x.
* Improvement potential #1 -- installer description.
It was not clear to me that the first download is a full offline installer. In
ignorance I used the one that downloads from web. The web page can pos
* Improvement potential #3 -- Linker executable name.
The name [link.exe] conflicts with Microsoft's linker. Please name it
[optlink.exe].
This is why we switched away from relying solely on environment variables, such
as PATH, to find the programs and set options. Instead, sc.ini is used:
On 2/14/2012 12:50 AM, Vincent wrote:
* Improvement potential #3 -- Linker executable name.
The name [link.exe] conflicts with Microsoft's linker. Please name it
[optlink.exe].
This is why we switched away from relying solely on environment variables, such
as PATH, to find the programs and se
On Tuesday, 14 February 2012 at 09:04:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
But there is a simple solution for your case. Create a batch
file, dmd.bat, with the contents:
c:\dmd\windows\bin\dmd %1 %2 %3 %4
I would suggest replacing "%1 %2 %3 %4" with "%*".
But what most people do is have multiple .
On 2012-02-14 10:04, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/14/2012 12:50 AM, Vincent wrote:
* Improvement potential #3 -- Linker executable name.
The name [link.exe] conflicts with Microsoft's linker. Please name it
[optlink.exe].
This is why we switched away from relying solely on environment
variables
It does help that Visual Studio ships with a batch file to open a console
configured for using vc++. Just don't use that when working on D apps.
On Feb 14, 2012, at 1:04 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/14/2012 12:50 AM, Vincent wrote:
* Improvement potential #3 -- Linker executable name.
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> It does help that Visual Studio ships with a batch file to open a console
> configured for using vc++. Just don't use that when working on D apps.
>
>
While fixing up some PATH setting issues with the installer I've wondered
if a similar batch
On 13.02.2012 20:13, Walter Bright wrote:
Hi Alf! Welcome!
Thanks.
On 2/12/2012 4:02 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
[snip]
* Improvement potential #5 -- The description of Windows prog.
Following main site's links to
[http://d-programming-language.org/windows.html],
I found a real monstros
You can get the runtime arguments at any point in your D code (and
especially in module constructors that run before main) via
'Runtime.args', by importing 'core.runtime'.
On 02/14/2012 11:45 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> On 13.02.2012 20:13, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Hi Alf! Welcome!
>
> Thanks.
Welcome! :) I've learned a lot from you on comp.lang.c++.moderated. It
is great to see you here as well.
If you don't mind my asking, and of course it is totally fine if
On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:45 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
>
> The main problem (pun not intended) in C and C++ is that neither standard
> `main` nor non-standard Microsoft `WinMain` provide the command line
> arguments in Unicode. Standard `main` has `char` arguments, by Windows
> convention encode
On 2/14/2012 11:45 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
On 13.02.2012 20:13, Walter Bright wrote:
Hi Alf! Welcome!
Thanks.
On 2/12/2012 4:02 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
[snip]
* Improvement potential #5 -- The description of Windows prog.
Following main site's links to
[http://d-programming-lan
On 2/14/2012 2:02 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
D should pass the command-line args as properly translated UTF-8. If this
doesn't happen, consider it a bug. Regarding Windows specifically, D
currently gets the args via GetCommandLineW(), so if that doesn't muck things
up then all should be well.
Just
On 14.02.2012 22:21, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 02/14/2012 11:45 AM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> On 13.02.2012 20:13, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Hi Alf! Welcome!
>
> Thanks.
Welcome! :) I've learned a lot from you on comp.lang.c++.moderated. It
is great to see you here as well.
If you don't mind my a
On 2/15/2012 7:16 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
And the old but true corollary, the best way to learn something is to
try and teach it to others.
After 18 years of teaching English here in Korea, I find it very
difficult not to correct friends and family back home. If my high school
teachers cou
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