On Thursday, 16 April 2026 at 19:30:48 UTC, DLearner wrote:
It's just that cl.exe is less than 1Mb, yet the Visual Studio
download to be able to use it is over 10Gb!
Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't allow redistributing Visual
Studio Build Tools.
And one seems to be forced to use the 'Developer Powershell',
which is very sluggish compared to the normal terminal window
(if you run DMD in the normal terminal window it can't find
cl.exe).
DMD has a bunch of logic trying to find the Visual Studio
installation path:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/2a47bdaafa58a90af9d6ce621f561ef9eb0bc5fd/compiler/src/dmd/vsoptions.d#L213
Did you install it in a special way, or modify your registry /
environment variables in any way?
