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SDWF 0.58

Stewart Gordon has released SDWF 0.58 (I seem to have missed 0.57). This latest release adds status bars and callbacks for handling window activation/deactivation events.

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Though You Thought D Already Was The Coolest Kid on the Block: DMD 1.006 is Released

Walter keeps wowing us with awesome D goodness. DMD 1.006 brings compile time function execution to the mix. I’m a little bummed by the new -J switch, though, since I just started using the import expression in Derelict’s build script. But considering all of the other goodies we’ve been getting, I can live with it!

Technorati Tags: D Programming Language, DMD, Digital Mars, Walter Bright

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Derelict Does the Redmond Tango (Sort of)

After the last post regarding Tango-ized Derelict on Linux, I realized that the user who had tested it (waves to odeamus) was actually on Windows. The difference between the two of us is that he was compiling with Rebuild and I was using Bud. So, I updated my copy of Rebuild and tried it out on sdl_ex1. And so I beheld a miracle. An executable was created and it wasn’t corrupt. I launched it and it ran flawlessly.

So, you can now use Tango-ized Derelict on Windows as long as you build your app with Rebuild. I won’t be adding support to the build script for any of this just yet, so until I do Rebuilding your app is your only option. Though I assume DSSS will work, since it is constructed on top of Rebuild.

When the situation changes I will post both here and in the Derelict forums.

Technorati Tags: D Programming Language, Derelict, Tango, Rebuild, build tools, Windows

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Derelict Does the Tango With Penguins

I recently updated Derelict to be compilable with Tango. I committed the changes and waited for some feedback before posting here. Now that a few bugs have been ironed out and someone has successfully compiled and executed a Tango-ized DerelictGL app, I think the time has come to let the wider world in on it.

There are a couple of caveats, though:

• I encountered a few errors with Tango on Windows that are beyond my control. I’m waiting for them to be resolved, but until they are you can only use Tango-ized Derelict on Linux.
• If you like to build Derelict’s libraries, you currently can’t with Tango. The build script does not have 100% Tango support just yet. So you’ll need to use a build tool, like Bud, Rebuild, or DSSS to compile Derelict packages along with your app (unless you enjoy creating Makefiles).

Unless you are a Linux user and anxious to experiment with Tango in a Derelict app, I suggest you do not update your local copy just yet. You can read more detail (along with what I’ve posted here) in the announcement I made in the Derelict forums. Please do read that post, because I also modified the build script again and haven’t yet updated the docs.

Technorati Tags: D Programming Language, Derelict, Tango, mulitmedia programming, OpenGL, SDL

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eDitor 0.3

Thomas Brix Larsen has been developing a text editor with D. Called eDitor, the current release (0.3) has syntax highlighting for the following languages:

D, C, C++, Java, Python, XML, XHTML, HTML, Lua, Perl, Ruby, SQL, Javascript, diff/patch, TeX/LyX

Read more about features, changes, and bug fixes on the eDitor home page.

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