• Benjamin Heath <Benjamin_member pathlink.com> Feb 12 2005
• John Reimer <brk_6502 yahoo.com> Feb 13 2005

Hey guys, glad to be here.

In my free time, I'm working on a computer game in C on FreeBSD.  It's very
early in development, of course, and I'd like to use D instead.  I'm rather new
to it (just found this site today), but it's sort of a WTH thing. :D  I like C,
but I really don't like header files at all.  Makeheaders solves some things,
but I'd like to see what D can do for me.  I won't even get into C++.

So firstly, I'd like to know of any success or failure with D on FreeBSD.  It
should work, right?  What all should I download?  Secondly, who else here is
working on a game?  Anyone on gamedev.net?

Anyway, I'm looking forward to your response(s?), and I'll probably make my over
here if I need some help.

Take 'er easy,
Ben

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 01:38:45 +0000, Benjamin Heath wrote:

 Hey guys, glad to be here.
 
 In my free time, I'm working on a computer game in C on FreeBSD.  It's very
 early in development, of course, and I'd like to use D instead.  I'm rather new
 to it (just found this site today), but it's sort of a WTH thing. :D  I like C,
 but I really don't like header files at all.  Makeheaders solves some things,
 but I'd like to see what D can do for me.  I won't even get into C++.
 
 So firstly, I'd like to know of any success or failure with D on FreeBSD.  It
 should work, right?  What all should I download?  Secondly, who else here is
 working on a game?  Anyone on gamedev.net?
 
 Anyway, I'm looking forward to your response(s?), and I'll probably make my
over
 here if I need some help.
 
 Take 'er easy,
 Ben


Hello Ben,

Welcome to D.  You should continue this thread in the digitalmars.d
newsgroup.  This one is deprecated; its current usefulness is as a
historical reference.

Concerning FreeBSD, I don't know who has tried getting things to work on
that platform.  It shouldn't be too difficult, though, with the
availability of gdc, a D language frontend for gcc.  You can find out more
about gdc in the D.gnu newsgroup (for downloads and installation
instructions). Since there are ports to OS X and Solaris, I imagine an x86
FreeBSD port should be very straight forward.

You may also like to take a look at dsource.org for an idea of what kind
of D projects people are working on.  Game programming is certainly
something D is capable of: if you search the digitalmars.d newsgroup you
find some interesting references to game development.  For an example of a
slick game written in D, go the Japanese sight (the current leaders in
this area): 

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/windows/tf_e.html

Good Luck!

- John R.

PS. You may also be able to run the linux dmd executable under FreeBSD
using FreeBSD's linux binary compatibility layer.