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Documentation Generators

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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
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Scod is a clean and lightweight theme for ddox, simply use It as drop-in replacement. MIT Cross-platform
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Adrdox is the underlying documentation generator of dpldocs.info Boost Cross-platform
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Ddoc is the builtin documentation generation in DMD. It is used by most notably Phobos and Mir (mir-random) Boost Cross-platform
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Documentation generator for D compatible with DDoc. Boost Cross-platform
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Documentation generator for D with Markdown support, based on Harbored. Boost Cross-platform
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CanDyDOC is fileset for creating advanced documentation of programs written in D programming language. Public Domain Cross-platform
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DDoc theme using Bootstrap for styling. MIT Cross-platform
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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

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Tool for analyzing D source code. Boost 1.0 Platform-independent
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The D Completion Daemon is an auto-complete program for the D programming language. GNU GPLv3 Platform-independent



Troubleshooting compilation problems

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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

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Easy to use build and package management tool for D2 with support for generating IDE projects and an online package registry MIT Windows, POSIX
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A D tool that can automatically build D apps. Boost 1.0
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This project seeks to provide complete support for the D2 language in cmake. MIT
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An automatic build tool. Boost 1.0
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A build configuration tool supporting D. New BSD License
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A fast incremental build tool intended for D projects. Boost 1.0 Windows, GNU/Linux
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Googles own buildtool - Correct, reproducible, fast builds for everyone. Apache License Version 2.0 JVM
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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
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A build system that aims to be fast, correct, and elegantly simple. MIT Windows, GNU/Linux
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A (meta) build system with multiple front (D, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Lua) and backends (make, ninja, tup, custom). BSD-3 Linux
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A framework for building bare-bones Win32 applications Windows



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