D Bits- Setting Thread Affinity on Windows in D April 3, 2012When working with D's standard library, it is sometimes necessary to work around missing declarations in the core.sys.windows.windows module. It's a fairly big module as is, but it isn't all-inclusive. If you are doing any heavy-duty Windows development, you'll likely want a... […]
- Putting D's Array Slices to Use March 8, 2012I've been working on BorderWatch a little bit every day. My focus has been on getting the ASCII engine, Arthur, into a state that will let me get a game up and running. With the few modules that I've implemented so far, I believe I'm there. One of the D features that has... […]
- BorderWatch March 5, 2012I'm afraid I'm going to be waving goodbye to Dolce. It's been sitting, bit rotting, for a while now. Some time ago I encountered two major issues with my Allegro binding in Derelict 2. One, a random (and I mean... […]
- Compiling Data into a D Executable March 3, 2012I'm supposed to be posting part three of my series on binding D to C. It's going to be boring to write, so I keep putting it off. But I *will* get to it eventually. In the meantime, I wanted to blog about a neat feature of D that I'd sort of forgotten about until I needed it. I'm working on an ASCII-based strategy/simulation game in the.. […]
- Binding D to C Part Two January 31, 2012This is part two of a series on creating bindings to C libraries for the D programming language. In my previous post, I discussed the difference between dynamic and static bindings and some of the considerations to take into account when deciding which way to go. Here in part two,... […]
- Setting Thread Affinity on Windows in D April 3, 2012
Monthly Archives: December 2006
DSSS 0.11
Hot on the heels of 0.10, Gregor has released version 0.11 of his D Shared Software System. This version fixes a minor bug which was only disclosed in top secret emails. It also adds two new command line parameters for … Continue reading
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D Gets Nokiafied
Bernd posted on the NG about a blog post by tinymail maintainer Philip Van Hoof that announced some interesting news from Michael Dominick. Michael has D up and running on the Nokia 770, with a picture on flickr to show … Continue reading
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DSSS 0.10
Gregor has announced version 0.10 of his D Shared Software System. The major effort in this new version appears to be fixing cross-platform issues. If you’ve had problems with DSSS, Gregor encourages you to try the latest and see if … Continue reading
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gdcgnu RPMs
Anders has posted his RPM packages for gdcgnu at his sourceforge page. He says he plans to post DEBs later. If you are on a Debian-based system now and prefer not to use the RPMs, he suggests the following command … Continue reading
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Pyd For Linux
Kirk McDonald’s Python wrapper for D, Pyd, can now be used on Linux via GDC 0.20. Penguins rejoice. There are a couple of caveats, such as the unavailability of StackThreads, but we can hope they’ll be sorted in the near … Continue reading
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