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D - greets from a FreeBSD game hobbyist (some tips, maybe?)

reply Benjamin Heath <Benjamin_member pathlink.com> writes:
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
Feb 12 2005
parent John Reimer <brk_6502 yahoo.com> writes:
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 This one is deprecated; its current usefulness is as a historical reference.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.
Feb 13 2005