Open Source Projects

Documentation Generators

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	CanDyDoc	CanDyDOC is fileset for creating advanced documentation of programs written in D programming language.	Public Domain	Windows/POSIX
	CuteDoc	CuteDoc is fileset for creating nice (and cute) documentation of programs written in D programming language.	Public Domain	Windows/POSIX
	bootDoc	DDoc theme using Bootstrap for styling.	MIT	Windows/POSIX
	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

GUI Libraries

Note: this list may not always be up-to-date nor complete.

For an automatically updated GUI library list in DUB please check the GUI category. Note however that not all GUI libraries on this page are registered or visible on dub.

Wrappers

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	GtkD	GTK+ is a highly usable, feature rich toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces which boasts cross platform compatibility and an easy to use API.	LGPL	Windows/POSIX/Mac OS X
	DWT	DWT is a library for creating cross-platform GUI applications. It's a port of the SWT Java library from Eclipse. DWT is compatible with D2 using the standard library (Phobos) and D1 using Tango. Now available on 32 and 64 bit, Linux and Windows. Old dsource.org page.	EPL-1.0	Windows/Linux
	dqt (w0rp)	Qt bindings for D	BSD 2-clause	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
	DQt (tim)	experimental bindings for a subset of Qt 5	LGPL-3.0	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
	dqml	Qt Qml bindings for the D programming language	LGPLv3	Windows/Linux
	QtE5	It is wrapper Qt-5 for programming language D.	Boost 1.0	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
	wxD	wxD is D programming language bindings for wxWidgets, providing a portable GUI toolkit for D.	wxWidgets(GNU LGPL based)	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
	FltkD	Testing use of C++ FLTK GUI lib from D code	Academic Free License
	tkd	GUI toolkit for the D programming language based on Tcl/Tk	MIT License (MIT)	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
	dtk (404)	dtk is a D wrapper of the Tcl/Tk graphics library.	Boost	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
	sciter-dport	Sciter engine bindings for creating HTML/CSS/scripting based multi-platform desktop apps	MIT	Windows/Linux
	awebview	Awesomium wrapper and WebView GUI library for D programming language.	??	Windows/Linux
	DerelictLibui	Dynamic bindings to the libui c library.	MIT	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
	libuid	Complete OO interfaces of libui in D	MIT	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
	Delta	Delta enables you to create your UI using Embarcadero Delphi RAD Studio (FireMonkey) while all application code is written in D.	Boost 1.0	Windows

Native

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	DFL	D Forms Library is a graphical user interface library for Windows. The project as abandoned by its author but unofficial forks is alive.	In license.txt	Windows
	DFL Rayerd fork	DFL unofficial fork	In license.txt	Windows
	DFL2	DFL FrankLike fork unofficial fork, now dfl can be build by dco.	LGPL 3.0	Windows
	dformlib	Yet another DFL fork	Boost	Windows
	DGui	DGui is a graphic library for Windows that aims to make windows applications with small effort.	Boost 1.0	Windows
	fxLib	A library for creating basic Win32 Apps with just a small amount of code.	??	Windows
	DlangUI	Cross platform GUI library, a bit similar to Android UI API. Layouts, styles, themes, unicode, i18n, OpenGL based acceleration, widgets, DML - QML-like UI definition.	Boost 1.0	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X/Android
	DQuick	A GUI library written in D	Boost	Windows/Linux

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.

Web Development

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	Hunt framework Full-stack Web Framework	Hunt is a high-level D Programming Language Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. It lets you build high-performance Web applications quickly and easily.	Apache 2.0	Windows, FreeBSD, macOS, Linux
	Vibe.d I/O and Web Framework	Asynchronous I/O and web development framework for D, providing a fiber based blocking programming model with a concise API. Comes with database support for MongoDB and Redis.	MIT	Windows, POSIX
	Diamond MVC Full-stack Web Framework	A full-stack web framework build on-top of vibe.d targeting enterprise development. It's a stable and fully functional framework and requires minimal to no D knowledge to use.	MIT	Windows, POSIX, Cloud-platforms (Azure, Heroku, AWS)
	Tiny Redis	Tiny Redis is a Redis driver for D2. It is intentionally minimal, fast, simple and has no dependencies.	ISC	Windows, POSIX

GUI Libraries

Note: this list may not always be up-to-date nor complete.

For an automatically updated GUI library list in DUB please check the GUI category. Note however that not all GUI libraries on this page are registered or visible on dub.

Wrappers

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	GtkD	GTK+ is a highly usable, feature rich toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces which boasts cross platform compatibility and an easy to use API.	LGPL	Windows/POSIX/Mac OS X
	DWT	DWT is a library for creating cross-platform GUI applications. It's a port of the SWT Java library from Eclipse. DWT is compatible with D2 using the standard library (Phobos) and D1 using Tango. Now available on 32 and 64 bit, Linux and Windows. Old dsource.org page.	EPL-1.0	Windows/Linux
	dqt (w0rp)	Qt bindings for D	BSD 2-clause	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
	DQt (tim)	experimental bindings for a subset of Qt 5	LGPL-3.0	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
	dqml	Qt Qml bindings for the D programming language	LGPLv3	Windows/Linux
	QtE5	It is wrapper Qt-5 for programming language D.	Boost 1.0	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
	wxD	wxD is D programming language bindings for wxWidgets, providing a portable GUI toolkit for D.	wxWidgets(GNU LGPL based)	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
	FltkD	Testing use of C++ FLTK GUI lib from D code	Academic Free License
	tkd	GUI toolkit for the D programming language based on Tcl/Tk	MIT License (MIT)	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
	dtk (404)	dtk is a D wrapper of the Tcl/Tk graphics library.	Boost	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
	sciter-dport	Sciter engine bindings for creating HTML/CSS/scripting based multi-platform desktop apps	MIT	Windows/Linux
	awebview	Awesomium wrapper and WebView GUI library for D programming language.	??	Windows/Linux
	DerelictLibui	Dynamic bindings to the libui c library.	MIT	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
	libuid	Complete OO interfaces of libui in D	MIT	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X
	Delta	Delta enables you to create your UI using Embarcadero Delphi RAD Studio (FireMonkey) while all application code is written in D.	Boost 1.0	Windows

Native

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	DFL	D Forms Library is a graphical user interface library for Windows. The project as abandoned by its author but unofficial forks is alive.	In license.txt	Windows
	DFL Rayerd fork	DFL unofficial fork	In license.txt	Windows
	DFL2	DFL FrankLike fork unofficial fork, now dfl can be build by dco.	LGPL 3.0	Windows
	dformlib	Yet another DFL fork	Boost	Windows
	DGui	DGui is a graphic library for Windows that aims to make windows applications with small effort.	Boost 1.0	Windows
	fxLib	A library for creating basic Win32 Apps with just a small amount of code.	??	Windows
	DlangUI	Cross platform GUI library, a bit similar to Android UI API. Layouts, styles, themes, unicode, i18n, OpenGL based acceleration, widgets, DML - QML-like UI definition.	Boost 1.0	Windows/Linux/Mac OS X/Android
	DQuick	A GUI library written in D	Boost	Windows/Linux

General Purpose Libraries

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	hunt	Containers, event, async io, caching, logging, time, serialization and other core components are included.	Apache 2.0	Windows, FreeBSD, macOS, Linux
	Unstandard	General purpose library aimed to be an addition to the D standard library Phobos.	Boost 1.0	Platform-independent
	Etcetera	A common type and function library for D language programs	MIT	Platform-independent
	dlib	Linear algebra, geometry, image processing, data streams, filesystem abstraction, XML parsing.	Boost 1.0	Windows, POSIX
	openmethods	Open (and multi) methods. Virtual functions as free functions. Solves the Expression Problem.	Boost 1.0	Platform-independent

Game development and Multimedia

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	Derelict	A collection of dynamic D bindings to C libraries, useful for multimedia and game development.	Boost	Windows, POSIX
	Allegro 5	A cross-platform game programming library with up-to-date D bindings. (*The Derelict Project also includes different, but at the time of writing, older/stale bindings.)	Custom (BSD-like)	Windows, Linux (including Raspberry PI), Mac OSX, iPhone and Android
	gl3n	Game-oriented math library in style of GLSL builtin types/functions. Vectors, matrices, frustums, etc.	MIT	Platform-independent
	gfm	Game oriented linear algebra, fixed point, memory alloc, containers, bindings, etc.	Unlicense (public domain)	Windows, POSIX
	glamour	High-level OpenGL wrapper for D.	MIT	Windows, POSIX
	artemisd	Component-based entity system framework for D.	New BSD License	Platform-independent
	dbox	A port of the Box2D physics library for 2D games.	zlib	Platform-independent
	dchip	A port of the Chipmunk2D physics library for 2D games.	MIT	Platform-independent
	Dagon	3D game engine.	Boost	Windows, POSIX
	dmech	3D physics engine (rigid body dynamics) written in D.	Boost	Platform-independent
	ae	Various game development utilities, including graphics, networking, image processing, OS utilities, etc.	MPL, Public Domain	Windows, POSIX
	dimgui	A port of the imgui OpenGL GUI library.	zlib	Platform-independent
	dspine	Esoteric Software Spine runtime binding for D.	MIT	Platform-independent
	bindbc-raylib	Dynamic bindings to the raylib library.	Boost	Platform-independent

Serialization

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	Apache Thrift	Thrift is a framework for scalable cross-language services development (serialization/RPC) and supports D out of the box.	Apache License v2.0	Windows/POSIX
	Cerealed	Binary serialisation library for D. Minimal to no boilerplate necessary.	BSD like	Windows/POSIX
	D:YAML	YAML is a serialization format aimed at speed and human readability. D:YAML is a YAML parser in D, originally based on PyYAML.	Boost 1.0	Platform-independent
	msgpack-d	MessagePack is a binary-based JSON-like serialization library. msgpack-d is a pure D implementation of MessagePack.	Boost 1.0	Windows/POSIX
	Orange	Orange is a serialization library for the D programming language. It supports D1/Tango and D2/Phobos.	Boost 1.0	Windows/POSIX
	yajl-d	Yet Another JSON Library, which supports the stream parsing. yajl-d is a YAJL binding for D.	Boost 1.0	Windows/POSIX
	sd	D library for versatile object serialization/deserialization, supporting integral types, arrays, and strings.	MIT	Linux

Databases

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	Database (HuntLabs)	A database abstraction layer, support PostgreSQL / MySQL / SQLite.	Apache 2.0	FreeBSD/Linux/Windows/MacOS
	kvdb (cvsae)	A lightweight and simple key-value database (store) build on top of std.json (dddb clone).	MIT	Linux
	dddb (cvsae)	A lightweight and simple key-value database (store) build on top of std.json.	MIT	Linux
	Entity (HuntLabs)	An object-relational mapping (ORM) framework for dlang's database, support PostgreSQL / MySQL / SQLite.	Apache 2.0	FreeBSD/Linux/Windows/MacOS
	DSQLite (bioinfornatics)	D library to use SQLite	GPL	Windows/POSIX
	SQLite3-D (bayun)	D2 SQLite bindings and OO interface	Boost	??
	d2sqlite3 (biozic)	This wrapper around SQLite in D	Boost	??
	sqlite4d (yasuhiro1988)	SQLite bridge library for D programming language	see	??
	arsdnet	PostgreSQL, mySQL and SQLite simple binding.	Boost	Windows/POSIX
	dpq2	Yet another attempt to create a good interface to PostgreSQL	Boost	Windows/POSIX
	ddb	Database access for D2. Currently, only PostgreSQL client	Boost 1.0	POSIX
	pgator	Allows to use JSON-RPC requests to PostgresSQL RDBMS.	MIT	POSIX
	ReeD	ArangoDB Driver.	Boost 1.0	POSIX
	DDBC	DB access library similar to JDBC (supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite).	Boost 1.0	Windows/POSIX
	HibernateD	ORM for D (supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite).	Boost 1.0	Windows/POSIX
	dpq	Simple but powerful PostgreSQL library with support for both ORM and manual querying.	MIT	POSIX(Windows untested)

Scripting D applications

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	LuaD	Lua for the D Programming Language	MIT	Windows/POSIX
	Pyd	Python for the D Programming Language	MIT	Windows/POSIX
	scheme-d	Scheme interpreter in D	Public domain	Platform-independent
	QScript	A simple & fast scripting language, written entirely in D.	MIT	Platform-independent

Text-to-speech

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	speech4d	Text to speech library	MIT	Windows/POSIX

Bioinformatics specific

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	DScience	The DScience Project goal is to become an international association of developers of freely available D tools for computational molecular biology.	LGPLv3+	Windows/POSIX
	qtlHD	R/qtlHD (or qtlHD) is the next generation implementation of R/qtl. qtlHD is aimed at QTL analysis of high-density, high-throughput data; for example for RNA-seq.	BSD	Windows/POSIX
	BioD	Library for high-performance processing of BAM, SAM, SFF. BioD aims to support more formats in the future.	MIT	Windows/POSIX

Instant messaging

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	Dirk	IRC library	MIT	Windows/POSIX

Unit Testing Framework

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	dunit (jmcabo)	D Unit Testing Framework.	Boost 1.0	Windows/POSIX
	dunit (linkrope)	xUnit Testing Framework for D (forked from jmcabo/dunit).	Boost 1.0	Windows/POSIX
	unit-threaded	Multi-threaded unit test framework for D.	BSD-3-Clause	Windows/POSIX
	DUnit (nomad-software)	Advanced unit testing toolkit.	MIT	Windows/POSIX
	DMocks-revived	DMocks-revived is a mock object framework for the D Programming Language, written also in D.	[1]	Windows/POSIX
	Trial	The extensible test runner for DLang	MIT

Dependency Injection Containers

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	Deject	Dependency injection system for the D programming language
	Dejector	D Dependency Injection Framework	MIT license
	poodinis	A dependency injection framework for D with support for autowiring.	MIT license
	endovena	Simple D Dependency Injection Framework	Boost license	Linux / Windows
	injected	Another dependency injection library for D	MIT license	Linux / Windows
	aedi	A dependency injection library		Linux / Windows

Alternative standard libraries / runtimes

	Title / Info	Description	License	Platform
	Tango	D2 port of Tango, the alternative D1 standard library	BSD / AFL3
	MiniLibD	A collection of libraries and tools to compile D language programs for embedded systems with the gdc compiler.	Boost
	SlimD	Minimalistic runtime / standard library for D
	minimal D	Minimalistic runtime for D
	MicroD	DMD fork which outputs C code instead of object files.
	D Runtime ARM Cortex-M study	Druntime port to an ARM Cortex-M processor

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