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digitalmars.D.learn - Install D lang on Windows 10 : an installation step by step tutorial

reply SMAOLAB <stephane ribas.fr> writes:
Hello everyone,

I am a newbie in the D langage.

I tried to install D on a Windows 10 but encountered some 
difficulties (even though I was reading the official D langage 
tutorial available on the official website).

I guess that for someone who has a totally new PC, new & fresh 
Windows 10 operating system, well, installing D&co, it's not so 
easy... :-)

This is why I decided to publish a tutorial on how to install D 
lang on a fresh Windows 10 (step by step tutorial).

Here is the link to the tutorial: 
https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/#Installing-Dlang-on-Windows

I hope that this "simple" document will complete the official D 
installation tutorial.

Have a nice reading and don't hesitate to send me your comments, 
I will improve the document...

Regards
Apr 18 2022
parent reply Dennis <dkorpel gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 18 April 2022 at 08:22:43 UTC, SMAOLAB wrote:

 I tried to install D on a Windows 10 but encountered some 
 difficulties (even though I was reading the official D langage 
 tutorial available on the official website).


What went wrong when you used the DMD installer? Installing 
Visual Studio should not be necessary, since DMD ships with the 
lld linker and MinGW Windows import libraries. If it doesn't work 
out of the box, it should be fixed.

Nevertheless, thanks for writing the detailed instructions.


 Have a nice reading and don't hesitate to send me your 
 comments, I will improve the document...


I don't see the guide (explicitly) installing git, but I recall 
dub needing it to install packages. Is that covered?
Apr 18 2022
next sibling parent Anonymouse <zorael gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 18 April 2022 at 09:04:24 UTC, Dennis wrote:

 What went wrong when you used the DMD installer? Installing 
 Visual Studio should not be necessary, since DMD ships with the 
 lld linker and MinGW Windows import libraries. If it doesn't 
 work out of the box, it should be fixed.


"Download and install Visual Studio 2019" is preselected in the 
installer, so you have to know to pick "Install VC2010 
redistributables to use it with the MinGW Platform libraries" to 
opt out. I guess it's not *necessary* but it certainly encourages 
new users to install it.

(I'd subjectively argue the VC2010/MinGW option should be the 
default, the whole of VS2019 is a very hefty download and not my 
IDE of choice.)
Apr 18 2022
prev sibling parent reply SMAOLAB <stephane ribas.fr> writes:
Dear Community,
Thanks for your reactions/feedbacks.


 What went wrong when you used the DMD installer?


Nothing really, the thing that went really wrong is the Microsoft 
Visual Studio (which licence I should install to get my D / Dplug 
program work). Next, I use LDC rather than DMD (but this only for 
my goal to develop DPLUG codes).

After I noticed that if you don't install VisualD and Microsoft 
Visual Studio you may have issues (you don't see the DMD 
extension for instance, the PATH is not set)

On Monday, 18 April 2022 at 09:04:24 UTC, Dennis wrote:

 I don't see the guide (explicitly) installing git, but I recall 
 dub needing it to install packages. Is that covered?


Yeap, I will add it and update the D-idioms.
Thanks !
Apr 18 2022
parent SMAOLAB <stephane ribas.fr> writes:
On Monday, 18 April 2022 at 16:20:38 UTC, SMAOLAB wrote:

 After I noticed that if you don't install VisualD and Microsoft 
 Visual Studio you may have issues (you don't see the DMD 
 extension for instance, the PATH is not set)


  you should read :

After I noticed that if you don't install **in the right order** 
VisualD and Microsoft Visual Studio you may have issues (you 
don't see the DMD extension for instance, the PATH is not set).

sorry :-)
Apr 18 2022