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
Tag Archives: Linux
DMD 1.060 and 2.045
Those of you on Linux wanting to use gdb to debug DMD output, you’ll want to snag the latest DMD releases. The last pair attempted to fix some problems with Dwarf generation, but didn’t quite get there. So 1.060 and … Continue reading
DDebber 1.0
Jesse Phillips has released DDebber, a tool that can be used to create .deb packages of DMD. From the announcement: This program will generate a .deb package from a Digital Mars zip file. Two packages are generated, an i386 version … Continue reading
QtD 0.1
The first official release of QtD, D bindings for the Qt application framework, has been released. It requires Tango, apparently builds only on Linux (unless I’m misunderstanding what I’m reading) and is released under version 3 of the GPL. If … Continue reading