On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 01:24:51 UTC, Manu wrote:
I might just add, that if you have Visual Studio installed
(which I
presume many Windows dev's do), then you don't need to do
ANYTHING.
DMD64 just works if VS is present.
I didn't do a single thing to get DMD-Win64 working. And it's
working great.
I just set up an environment on Win 7 x64 using the Windows SDK
version 7.1 without Visual Studio. Using the DOS prompt that
comes with the Windows SDK, which initializes various build
variables, to compile to 64-bit COFF with dmd and link to a
COFF64 C static library, the only thing I had to do was set a
VCINSTALLDIR environment variable (set VCINSTALLDIR=C:\Program
Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\), so that dmd could
find the 64-bit linker, link.exe.
Other than that, all you need to do is install the Windows SDK
7.1, which comes with the compiler, linker, and various build
tools. I had read that the latest Windows SDK, 8.0, does not
come with the compiler and other build tools, though perhaps that
has changed since, I haven't checked recently.
You should make sure this is clear at the top of any wiki entry.
Perhaps a future push to convince Walter to port DMD-Win32 to
COFF/WinSDK
aswell might be nice ;)
Win32 is still an important platform for many (most?) users.
I agree. I wonder how much more work COFF32 would be, ie why it
wasn't done in the first place. I was surprised when I started
using D on Windows how painful the OMF/COFF situation was,
especially since Windows support has long been pointed at as a
strength for D.
Great work to make it this easy on Win64, :) COFF32 would push D
the rest of the way.
