Re: Recommended procedure to upgrade DMD installation

2016-08-06 Thread A D dev via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 6 August 2016 at 01:22:51 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: DMD ships with the OPTLINK linker and uses it by default. You generally don't need to worry about calling them directly Got it, thanks.

Re: Recommended procedure to upgrade DMD installation

2016-08-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 21:36:07 UTC, A D dev wrote: What Microsoft tools are you referring to? Do you mean C toolchain build tools, like the linker, librarian, (N)MAKE, etc.? Does D depend on those on Windows? (I do remember reading a D doc, maybe the overview, that said something like

Re: Recommended procedure to upgrade DMD installation

2016-08-05 Thread A D dev via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 22:20:12 UTC, Seb wrote: OT: 2.071.0 has been released in April - you may check more often ;-) That - 2.071.0 - was actually a typo - I meant to type 2.071.1 - which I read (probably on a recent edition of This Week in D) has been released recently. I never

Re: Recommended procedure to upgrade DMD installation

2016-08-05 Thread A D dev via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 00:07:36 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: If you're running the installer, it will uninstall the previous version for you. If you are doing it manually, I recommend you delete the existing folder rather than overwriting it. Thanks for the info. If you are compiling 64-bit

Re: Recommended procedure to upgrade DMD installation

2016-08-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 18:47:36 UTC, A D dev wrote: Hi group, Somewhat new to D. What is the recommended procedure, if any, to upgrade my DMD installation (on Windows, if that makes a difference)? I.e. If I have 2.70.0 and I saw that 2.17.1 is out now, I can look at the list of bug

Re: Recommended procedure to upgrade DMD installation

2016-08-04 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 18:47:36 UTC, A D dev wrote: Hi group, Somewhat new to D. What is the recommended procedure, if any, to upgrade my DMD installation (on Windows, if that makes a difference)? I.e. If I have 2.70.0 and I saw that 2.17.1 is out now, I can look at the list of bug

Recommended procedure to upgrade DMD installation

2016-08-04 Thread A D dev via Digitalmars-d
Hi group, Somewhat new to D. What is the recommended procedure, if any, to upgrade my DMD installation (on Windows, if that makes a difference)? I.e. If I have 2.70.0 and I saw that 2.17.1 is out now, I can look at the list of bug fixes and any new features in the new version and decide