title: How to get started with D on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
body: <p>I've been interested in "<a href="http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">D</a>" for a couple of years now and recently decided to start actually playing with it. I've been able to grasp the basics quite easily, I love the basic feature set of the language and the more I read about it, the more impressed I get.</p>
  
  <p>Now, I'm very interested in writing a custom web application server as a hobby project and I want it to be a simple binary, using dynamically linked libraries for the actual web applications. I believe D to be the perfect language for this venture. </p>
  
  <p>There is only one big problem... over the past couple of days, I have been completely unable to get any kind of IDE setup working. I can compile and run everything just fine on the command line, but everything I try in any of the IDE's available (Code::Blocks, eclipse+descent, Xcode with D plugin, and even the windows D-IDE running in VirtualBox on Windows XP Pro) the only thing that ever happens is:</p>
  
  <p><code>object.d: Error: module object cannot read file 'object.d'</code></p>
  
  <p>After two days of trying different things and following tutorials, this is really getting on my nerves. I want to learn to use D efficiently, but I need some comfy tool chain that includes code completion in the editor if I want to keep my sanity, which I obviously do.</p>
  
  <p>[edit:added emphasis to the <strong><em>really</em></strong> important bit]</p>
  
  <p><strong><em>Is there anyone that can help me set up eclipse or (preferably) netbeans (but no plugin seems to be publicly available) to give me compile and run abilities in the IDE, along with code completion? on my Mac, running Mac OS X 10.6?</em></strong></p>
  
  <p>I want to use the phobos libraries (and therefor a 2.0 compiler) but I don't really care if its <a href="http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/dmd-osx.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">dmd</a> or <a href="http://gdcmac.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">gdmd (gdcmac)</a>.</p>
  
  <p>[addition]</p>
  
  <p>I believe we can assume that my dmd compiler installation is in order because it works from the commandline. I just don't want to use it from the commandline because its tedious. The question is about and IDE, the compiler works, its just IDEs that won't</p>