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: April 2007
More DSSS and Rebuild Updates
Gregor has been pumping out updates to DSSS/Rebuild so frequently that I haven’t been able to keep up. It seems the recent spate of updates is going to slow down with the latest. There have been three updates since my … Continue reading
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DMD 1.013
Walter has been playing Bug Stomp recently. The result is the shiny, new DMD 1.013. If you have been having issues with recent releases and found yourself reverting to a pre-1.0 compiler, your problems will likely have gone away with … Continue reading
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Tango 0.97 RC 1
Tango inches closer to a final release with version 0.97 RC 1. In addition to several other bug fixes and changes, Tango now bundles DMD in its distribution. For those who don’t want the bundled DMD, it appears that your … Continue reading
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A Flurry of DSSS & Rebuild Releases
Gregor has released 3 versions of both DSSS and Rebuild in quick succession. They are now at 0.60 and 0.18 respectively. Here’s a list of features added across the three versions: – updated the DMD frontend to 0.012- Made it … Continue reading
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