On Friday, 21 April 2017 at 11:23:16 UTC, XavierAP wrote:
Visual D has just added support for VS 2017 (kudos), whereas
before I had to stick with 2015 at the latest. But DMD has an
additional dependency on VS (for x64), and it is not
documented, as far as I've been able to find, which versions.
So I just tried, and now the DMD Windows installer complains
that it can't find any compatible versions of MSVC and the
Windows SDK, after having installed 2017.
Is this documented somewhere that I've missed? Otherwise, would
it be possible to add this information somewhere, namely which
versions of what dependencies are required for what features?
The paths have changed in VS 2017 and the DMD installer hasn't
been modified to pick them up yet. You can edit the paths in
sc.ini manually, or you can install the MS Build Tools 2015. You
can do that via the download link [1], or by running the VS 2017
installer again and:
* click 'Update' if you see it, otherwise click 'Modify'
* go to the 'Individual Components' tab
* scroll down to 'Compilers, build tools and runtimes'
* check VC++ 2015.3 v140 toolset (x86, x64)
I actually haven't tested if the DMD installer recognizes the
2015 toolset you get through the 2017 installer -- I'm assuming
the paths will be the same as they are with the MS Build Tools
download, but they may well be different. Regardless, editing
sc.ini manually is the better option if you don't need or want
the 2015 build tools.
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48159
