On 2 September 2013 11:41, Brad Anderson <e...@gnuk.net> wrote: > On Sunday, 1 September 2013 at 21:08:24 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > >> On 9/1/2013 1:56 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: >> >>> On 9/1/13, Brad Anderson <e...@gnuk.net> wrote: >>> >>>> What I need from you guys and your different VS installs is, >>>>> for each one, a bug report with what is necessary to get it >>>>> installed. Then we can add it to the modern version of my >>>>> floppy disk "linker collection". >>>>> >>>> >>>> This can be automated easily enough. The installer can detect >>>> what versions of VS are installed and either set an environment >>>> variable or modify sc.ini (your choice). It could probably be >>>> made forward compatible since Microsoft has been using basically >>>> the same paths and registry keys for every new release since at >>>> least VS 2005. >>>> >>> >>> Yes, and VS comes out what, maybe once a year? This is possible to >>> implement and maintain. If it weren't, then installing VS plugins >>> would be impossible, but as far as I know it mostly works out of the >>> box (hell, VisualD does it, so why can't we do something as simple as >>> detect VS paths?) >>> >>> >> Pull requests are, of course, welcome. >> > > https://github.com/D-**Programming-Language/**installer/pull/22<https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/pull/22> > > It can detect (through registry keys) the paths of Visual C++ 10, 11, and > 12 (2010, 2012, and 2013) and Windows SDK 7.0A, 7.1A, 8.0, and 8.1. It > modifies the sc.ini installed from the zip file by substituting the > defaults with the detected paths (which makes it important I have > accurately reflected what the sc.ini defaults will be). > > I only have VC 10 to test with myself (and lack the disk space to have > concurrent installations of all 3). I installed the Windows SDK 7.0A > (comes with VC 10), 8.0, and 8.1 though I couldn't actually use 8.0 and 8.1 > successfully because of the path tail issue Dmitry pointed out (and you > opened a pull request to fix). > > The combination of VC 10 and SDK 8.1 did not work (link errors) but VC 10 > with 7.0A worked perfectly. I imagine you need to pair the SDK with the > version of VC that was released around the same time. >
Huzzah! Give the man a beer! :) How about the DirectX SDK? http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6812 It's super standard aswell for anyone working on multimedia software. It has an environment variable on my machine: DXSDK_DIR = C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft DirectX SDK (June 2010)\
