• Daniel Donnell, Jr (16/16) Oct 02 2022 I thought I set everything up correctly, and now:
• Imperatorn (11/27) Oct 02 2022 This is partly valid criticism. Many other languages have a
• Sergey (4/20) Oct 02 2022 Did you try DlangIDE or Dexed?
• Mike Parker (14/30) Oct 02 2022 Plenty of people are using Visual D and VS Code with D. Whatever
• rikki cattermole (5/5) Oct 02 2022 Visual Studio with its c++ components can debug D code, it should not
• Rainer Schuetze (10/16) Oct 03 2022 Can you be more specific what you are doing and what is going wrong?
• Alain De Vos (1/1) Oct 04 2022 why not try neovim.
• z (13/29) Oct 06 2022 dlang.org seems to implicitly recommends a form of Visual

Daniel Donnell, Jr <fruitfulapproach gmail.com> writes:

I thought I set everything up correctly, and now:

```
Exception thrown at 0x00007FF7D6E2E230 in metamath-d.exe: 
0xC0000096: Privileged instruction.
Unable to open natvis file 
'c:\Users\fruit\.vscode\extensions\webfreak.code-d-0.23.2\dlang-debug\dlang_cpp.natvis'.
```

So what the hell do you D developers use to code with if A) 
Visual D doesn't work - it just ate my app.obj file and can't 
find it anymore no matter if I clean or re-order the executable 
paths in settings.

B) VS Code doesn't work out-of-the-box.

Every. Single. Time I get around to using D, there's always 
something that pops up and doesn't work right.  And it never gets 
fixed.   How the heck do you expect me to debug without a proper 
debugging IDE :|

Imperatorn <johan_forsberg_86 hotmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 2 October 2022 at 11:00:06 UTC, Daniel Donnell, Jr 
wrote:
 I thought I set everything up correctly, and now:

 ```
 Exception thrown at 0x00007FF7D6E2E230 in metamath-d.exe: 
 0xC0000096: Privileged instruction.
 Unable to open natvis file 
 'c:\Users\fruit\.vscode\extensions\webfreak.code-d-0.23.2\dlang-debug\dlang_cpp.natvis'.
 ```

 So what the hell do you D developers use to code with if A) 
 Visual D doesn't work - it just ate my app.obj file and can't 
 find it anymore no matter if I clean or re-order the executable 
 paths in settings.

 B) VS Code doesn't work out-of-the-box.

 Every. Single. Time I get around to using D, there's always 
 something that pops up and doesn't work right.  And it never 
 gets fixed.   How the heck do you expect me to debug without a 
 proper debugging IDE :|

This is partly valid criticism. Many other languages have a 
better oob-experience.

But, D is underpowered.


language for a lot of stuff, but when it comes to IDE and 
debugging, you can't expect the same "just works" experience as 


That's just the way it is unfortunately.

Are you running as administrator or not btw?

Sergey <kornburn yandex.ru> writes:

On Sunday, 2 October 2022 at 11:00:06 UTC, Daniel Donnell, Jr 
wrote:
 I thought I set everything up correctly, and now:

 ```
 Exception thrown at 0x00007FF7D6E2E230 in metamath-d.exe: 
 0xC0000096: Privileged instruction.
 Unable to open natvis file 
 'c:\Users\fruit\.vscode\extensions\webfreak.code-d-0.23.2\dlang-debug\dlang_cpp.natvis'.
 ```

 So what the hell do you D developers use to code with if A) 
 Visual D doesn't work - it just ate my app.obj file and can't 
 find it anymore no matter if I clean or re-order the executable 
 paths in settings.

 B) VS Code doesn't work out-of-the-box.

 Every. Single. Time I get around to using D, there's always 
 something that pops up and doesn't work right.  And it never 
 gets fixed.   How the heck do you expect me to debug without a 
 proper debugging IDE :|

Did you try DlangIDE or Dexed?
They could be a solution

Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 2 October 2022 at 11:00:06 UTC, Daniel Donnell, Jr 
wrote:
 I thought I set everything up correctly, and now:

 ```
 Exception thrown at 0x00007FF7D6E2E230 in metamath-d.exe: 
 0xC0000096: Privileged instruction.
 Unable to open natvis file 
 'c:\Users\fruit\.vscode\extensions\webfreak.code-d-0.23.2\dlang-debug\dlang_cpp.natvis'.
 ```

 So what the hell do you D developers use to code with if A) 
 Visual D doesn't work - it just ate my app.obj file and can't 
 find it anymore no matter if I clean or re-order the executable 
 paths in settings.

 B) VS Code doesn't work out-of-the-box.

 Every. Single. Time I get around to using D, there's always 
 something that pops up and doesn't work right.  And it never 
 gets fixed.   How the heck do you expect me to debug without a 
 proper debugging IDE :|

Plenty of people are using Visual D and VS Code with D. Whatever 
the source of your problem, it's surely fixable. Though if no one 
has encountered this particular issue, then it may take some 
doing to figure out the problem.

I've emailed Rainer, the maintainer of Visual D, to notify him of 
this thread. He might have an idea of what's wrong, or at least 
will be in a position to ask more informed questions than I or 
others to help you solve the problem.

In the future, when you encounter Visual D issues, please post in 
the IDEs forum. Rainer checks in there more regularly and will be 
more likely to see your posts.

https://forum.dlang.org/group/ide

rikki cattermole <rikki cattermole.co.nz> writes:

Visual Studio with its c++ components can debug D code, it should not 
require Visual D to do so.

Open executable as project.

If this does not work, you have a serious issue in your system/VS install.

This may help to narrow down what is going on.

Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:

On 02/10/2022 13:00, Daniel Donnell wrote:
 Visual D doesn't work - it just ate my app.obj file and can't find it
 anymore no matter if I clean or re-order the executable paths in
 settings.

Can you be more specific what you are doing and what is going wrong?

On 02/10/2022 23:28, rikki cattermole wrote:
 Visual Studio with its c++ components can debug D code, it should not
 require Visual D to do so.

 Open executable as project.

Or start "devenv program.exe" from the command line.

Indeed, you don't have to build with Visual D to use the debugger. The 
C++-only native debugger works, but having Visual D installed also comes 
with a debugger extension that makes debugging smoother, e.g. you don't 
have to know the respective C++ syntax for watch expressions.

BTW: Using compiler options -gf instead of -g will add more debug info 
and can improve the debug experience.

Alain De Vos <devosalain ymail.com> writes:

why not try neovim.

z <z z.com> writes:

On Sunday, 2 October 2022 at 11:00:06 UTC, Daniel Donnell, Jr 
wrote:
 I thought I set everything up correctly, and now:

 ```
 Exception thrown at 0x00007FF7D6E2E230 in metamath-d.exe: 
 0xC0000096: Privileged instruction.
 Unable to open natvis file 
 'c:\Users\fruit\.vscode\extensions\webfreak.code-d-0.23.2\dlang-debug\dlang_cpp.natvis'.
 ```

 So what the hell do you D developers use to code with if A) 
 Visual D doesn't work - it just ate my app.obj file and can't 
 find it anymore no matter if I clean or re-order the executable 
 paths in settings.

 B) VS Code doesn't work out-of-the-box.

 Every. Single. Time I get around to using D, there's always 
 something that pops up and doesn't work right.  And it never 
 gets fixed.   How the heck do you expect me to debug without a 
 proper debugging IDE :|

dlang.org seems to implicitly recommends a form of Visual 
Studio(interchangeable with vscodium?), it's recommended enough 
that the DMD(or is it just visual D?) installer proposes to 
install it too.
However, i can confirm that the situation is not that good 
outside of it, most general purpose code editors' D support is 
broken. it seems that implementing support for D is difficult.
Maybe try dexed if it's available on your platform?

If you need debugger badly and VS is inadequate, i can recommend 
x96dbg or another "normal"(not integrated) debugger, it should 
retrieve the debug symbols without difficulty.