Open Source Projects

Documentation Generators

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	DDox	DDox is an alternative documentation generator for programs written in D. It aims to be fully compatible with Ddoc, and brings many additional features.	MIT	Cross-platform
	ScoD	Scod is a clean and lightweight theme for ddox, simply use It as drop-in replacement.	MIT	Cross-platform
	Adrdox	Adrdox is the underlying documentation generator of dpldocs.info	Boost	Cross-platform
	Ddoc	Ddoc is the builtin documentation generation in DMD. It is used by most notably Phobos and Mir (mir-random)	Boost	Cross-platform
	Harbored	Documentation generator for D compatible with DDoc.	Boost	Cross-platform
	Harbored-mod	Documentation generator for D with Markdown support, based on Harbored.	Boost	Cross-platform
	CanDyDoc	CanDyDOC is fileset for creating advanced documentation of programs written in D programming language.	Public Domain	Cross-platform
	bootDoc	DDoc theme using Bootstrap for styling.	MIT	Cross-platform
	Doxygen	Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors), Fortran, VHDL, PHP, C#, and to some extent D.	GNU GPL	Windows/POSIX

D source code tools

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	DScanner	Tool for analyzing D source code.	Boost 1.0	Platform-independent
	DCD	The D Completion Daemon is an auto-complete program for the D programming language.	GNU GPLv3	Platform-independent

Troubleshooting compilation problems

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	DustMite	DustMite, is a D source code minimization tool. It's helpful in finding toolchain problems.	Public Domain	Windows/POSIX

To debug D programs you need to use a debugger that understands the format of the debug symbols information that your chosen compiler produces. The quality of the debug symbols information might vary depending on which compiler you use and its underlying debug format. For example, some compiler configurations may present the names of variables and/or functions in it's C mangled form, instead of the natural D name.

Debugging support by compiler

Compiler+Platform	Format	Debugger	Supported functionality
DMD-Win32	OMF	Mago/VisualD	Good support: Breakpoints; Stack frames; Mostly pretty names ('.' shows up as '@'); Variable inspection; Visual Studio based.
		Mago-MI	Good support: Breakpoints; Stack frames; Variable inspection; GDB/MI compatible interface for Mago debugger.
		WinDbg	Supplied with the main D compiler zip file download. Overview
		ddbg	Doesn't seem to be working well. Project no longer maintained.
		OllyDbg 2	Reasonable support when assisted by cv2pdb; stack frames; mangled symbols; shows source code alongside disassembly. Note: v2.01 has a bug that may cause frequent crashes when reading PDB files. Details and patch here.
DMD-Win64 LDC-Win64	COFF	Mago/VisualD	TODO: same level of support as for win32? Has issues with structs and pointers, break on D exceptions can no longer be toggled for unknown reasons.
		RemedyDB	Paid. Works better at certain duties than VS. Still in active development. Does not have an option for break on exceptions, but can be mitigated with putting a breakpoint into an exception CTOR.
DMD-Linux GDC-Linux LDC-Linux GDC-Win32/64	DWARF	GDB	Good support: Breakpoints; Stack frames; Pretty names; Variable inspection;
		ZeroBUGS	"Modular debugger for C/C++/D programming languages (and virtually anything else that supports Stabs/DWARF debug formats)". Supported debugging functionality??
LDC-MinGW	DWARF	-	DWARF debug symbol info seems to be broken for LLVM compiled with MinGW note
DMD-MacOS GDC-MacOS LDC-MacOS	?	GDB	Limited/outdated support? According to Jacob Carlberg: "D symbols need to be prefixed with an extra underscore." "Line numbers don't work."
		LLDB	?

Graphical debugger frontends

Frontends providing support to a command-line debugger mentioned in the previous section.

Debugger	Frontend	Description	Platform
GDB	Mono-D	MonoDeveloped-based full D IDE. Has integration with the GDB debugger. "Debugging (using MonoDevelop’s integrated gdb support on Linux currently)"	Linux?
GDB	DDT	Eclipse-based IDE. Has integration with the GDB debugger, including D support. (Debugging support is based on Eclipse CDT)	Linux, Windows, MacOS
GDB	Nemiver	Graphical frontend to the GDB debugger, which supports full D syntax from version 7.2.	Linux
GDB	CGDB	Command line frontend to the GDB debugger, which supports full D syntax from version 7.2.Shows code and the GDB console in split windows.	Linux, MacOS
GDB	DDD	GNU DDD is a graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB. Usual front-end features such as viewing source code, viewing variables, etc.	Linux
GDB	Affinic Debugger	Affinic Debugger GUI .aka. ADG, is designed as a graphical user interface for various debuggers. This version is specifically targeted on GDB, the GNU debugger.	Linux, Windows, MacOS
GDB	DlangIDE	D language IDE written in D. Supports GDB-MI compatible debuggers.	Linux, Windows, MacOS
GDB	Dexed - GDB commander	Visual debugging with GDB in one of the IDE widget.	Linux
mago-mi	DlangIDE	D language IDE written in D. Supports GDB-MI compatible debuggers.	Windows
mago-mi	DDT	Eclipse-based IDE. Supports mago-mi debugger using GDB-MI interface.	Windows
GDB / LLDB	VS Code with C/C++ Extension	Visual Studio Code along with the C/C++ extension which allows for debugging native applications. It is possible to use the extension's debugger with D.	Linux, MacOS
GDB / LLDB / mago-mi	Native Debug (VS Code Extension)	Debugging through Visual Studio Code's debugging UI.	Linux, Windows, MacOS

Specific Debugger Tutorials

Some video resources on learning debugging can be found here: Debugging with GDB (Linux demonstration), Debugging with lldb (Mac demonstration with LDC2 and DMD) (Note, as the quality of debug information improves you may get more information/abilities through your debugger over time). Please visit the Tutorials which may contain further resources.

Build Systems

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	DUB	Easy to use build and package management tool for D2 with support for generating IDE projects and an online package registry	MIT	Windows, POSIX
	RDMD	A D tool that can automatically build D apps.	Boost 1.0
	cmake-d	This project seeks to provide complete support for the D2 language in cmake.	MIT
	xfBuild	An automatic build tool.	Boost 1.0
	premake4	A build configuration tool supporting D.	New BSD License
	Cook	A fast incremental build tool intended for D projects.	Boost 1.0	Windows, GNU/Linux
	Bazel	Googles own buildtool - Correct, reproducible, fast builds for everyone.	Apache License Version 2.0	JVM
	Meson	Open source build system meant to be both extremely fast, and, even more importantly, as user friendly as possible.	Apache License Version 2.0	Windows, GNU/Linux
	Button	A build system that aims to be fast, correct, and elegantly simple.	MIT	Windows, GNU/Linux
	Reggae	A (meta) build system with multiple front (D, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Lua) and backends (make, ninja, tup, custom).	BSD-3	Linux
	SlimD	A framework for building bare-bones Win32 applications		Windows

External links

• list of D projects on github.
• D Libraries Registry
• Awesome D
• DUB Registry