• MofuX (14/14) Jun 15 2004 hi,
• Mike Parker (20/27) Jun 15 2004 dig is horribly outdated. Check out Joel Anderson's undig at

MofuX <MofuX_member pathlink.com> writes:

hi,
i'm kinda new to D and tried to install the dig library. the problem i had is
that i get compiler errors caused by new casting functions within the newest
version of the D compiler (well, at least that's my suggestion)

i tried to change them all manually by writing a cast(type).... but i can't get
the librarys running.

although i have a problem on how to install librarys correctly (what folder
structure should i use)

opengl from DedicateD isn't working correctly also, maybe caused by failing
dependencies...

so what i'm searching for is a short tutorial on how to install libs correctly
and how to stop the cast- error

thanks!

MofuX

Mike Parker <aldacron71 yahoo.com> writes:

MofuX wrote:
 hi,
 i'm kinda new to D and tried to install the dig library. the problem i had is
 that i get compiler errors caused by new casting functions within the newest
 version of the D compiler (well, at least that's my suggestion)

dig is horribly outdated. Check out Joel Anderson's  undig at 
http://www.dsource.org/ (or alternatively his home page at 
http://badmama.com.au/~anderson/).


 opengl from DedicateD isn't working correctly also, maybe caused by failing
 dependencies...

The stuff from DedicateD is also outdated, and there are several updated 
versions of Pavel's opengl floating around. Undig includes a working 
version. If you need/want to use OGL without linking to the import 
library, my Derelict project at dsource.org is another option.


 so what i'm searching for is a short tutorial on how to install libs correctly

The easiest way is to drop them in the dmd\lib directory, but I wouldn't 
recommend that. What some do is to keep all of the libs they use in a 
common directory (other than dmd/lib) and then add the full path to the 
LIB environment variable in dm/bin/sc.ini.

I usually just dump the libs into a common directory like I mentioned 
above, but rather than editing sc.ini I do something like this in my 
Makefile:

DINC = -IC:\path\to\somelib\source -IC:\path\to\somelib2\source
DFLAGS = -v -debug
LIBS.PATH = C:\dev\d\lib
LIBS = $(LIB.PATH)\somelib.lib $(LIB.PATH)\somelib2.lib
dmd file.d $(LIBS) $(DFLAGS) $(DINC)