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I decided (after writing the last post on this subject) that it is much more feasible to simply continue working on my install scripts rather than on the tutorial itself. With your help (I hope) I will be able to improve them and make run correctly on systems other than Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty). So here they are:

D based on DMD under Linux Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty)
Download script

D based on GDC under Linux Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty)
Download script

Make sure you have the following requirements installed before running any of the scripts (other packages may be required):

• curl
• wget
• svn
• for the GDC script: gcc build tools (build-essential under Ubuntu)

Enjoy!

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We all know that D is not yet a very mature platform (although it is making steps quickly into the right direction). Because of that, it is not that easy to setup a working (or development) environment. Here are my efforts to clarify the situation. The difficulty in reaching this goal lies mainly in the incompatibilities between libraries and compiler versions (or implemented features).

I will try to show how I managed to install a (more or less) complete working environment for D under Linux using either DMD or GDC. These two compilers each have their pros and cons: DMD is more stable and has the latest features integrated, while GDC is completely open source. By “complete” I mean the following packages were installed and running smoothly (I won’t loose time to justify why I wanted each one - they simply make sense to have, pretty much all the time - in no particular order):

1. DSSS 0.71 (D Shared Software System) - link.
2. DMD 1.018 - link / GDC 0.24 / rev.146 (GCC 4.1.2) - link.
3. Tango rev.2500 (The modern standard library for D) - link.
4. Tangobos rev.15 (Phobos and Tango compatibility layer) - link.
5. Mango rev.1037 (Network programming library) - link.
6. DDL rev.285 (Dynamic run-time linking of executables) - link.
7. DDBI rev.59 (D DataBase Interface) - link.

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The Problem:

I’m sure that this problem is pretty common, since it already happened to me a few times:

When I tried to compile some source package under Linux (like the GDC compiler for the D language), the whole make process started to go into an infinite loop at a certain point. It ran ./configure for a subdirectory and then the make tool said something like:

make[1]: Warning: File `...' has modification time
         9.4e+02 s in the future

and then started with the ./configure right back again. I didn’t understand, I had done this a few hours earlier on an identical operating system (Ubuntu 7 Feisty) at work, now I go home and it doesn’t work! (more…)

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A while ago I posted an article describing my quest for the right language to develop one of my projects (a development platform in itself). The conclusion was indecisive as I could not make a definite choice at that point about which one I would choose between D and Ruby.

I know, I know many would jump on my back and say that I’m crazy for even considering a comparison with Ruby, but I don’t think so. In fact after a while I actually realized that D was better for me rather than Ruby¹ . (more…)

1. This is not to say that I’m doing a generic and universal comparison of the two; far from it; this is merely a research study for my project (which also happened to change consistently during this research). The project I’m speaking of is now meant to be a new interpreted programming language. ⇑

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