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: January 2009
SDWF 0.61
Stewart’s Windows Framework (yes, that’s Windows as in MS, meaning it’s not for Linux or Mac) has been updated. This latest version adds support for drag-n-drop and is compatible with DMD 2.023.
LDC 0.9 Has Arrived
I finally get to add a new LDC Releases category to this blog. Christian Kamm and Tomas Lindquist Olsen have announced the first release of LDC. This is big news that I’m sure a number of D-ites have been eagerly … Continue reading
DMD 1.039 and 2.023
The last update of DMD resulted in longer compiler times due to one of the bugfixes. Now, 1.039 and 2.023 have been released with that particular bugfix reverted. Compile times are back to where they should be. Additionally, Walter has … Continue reading