Re: visual c++ licensing issues

2013-12-23 Thread Stephen Jones
On Monday, 23 December 2013 at 21:43:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/23/2013 12:50 PM, Stephen Jones wrote: Isn't the point that Microsoft have just illustrated that they intend tightening their grip over the development tools, in which case the future viability of D as open source is jeopar

Re: visual c++ licensing issues

2013-12-23 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/23/2013 12:50 PM, Stephen Jones wrote: Isn't the point that Microsoft have just illustrated that they intend tightening their grip over the development tools, in which case the future viability of D as open source is jeopardized; if you want to program D you will have to obtain some Microso

Re: visual c++ licensing issues

2013-12-23 Thread Stephen Jones
Isn't the point that Microsoft have just illustrated that they intend tightening their grip over the development tools, in which case the future viability of D as open source is jeopardized; if you want to program D you will have to obtain some Microsoft license to access the linker required to

Re: visual c++ licensing issues

2013-12-23 Thread Mike Wey
On 12/22/2013 10:43 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 21:14:54 UTC, Stephen Jones wrote: Isn't there a problem using Microsoft's visual studio to link for 64 bit in that visual studio 2013 is free only for enrolled students? Recent versions of Visual Studio Express (which

Re: visual c++ licensing issues

2013-12-23 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 21:14:54 UTC, Stephen Jones wrote: Isn't there a problem using Microsoft's visual studio to link for 64 bit in that visual studio 2013 is free only for enrolled students? Microsoft has several programs like dreamspark (students, teachers etc) or bizspark (new bu

Re: visual c++ licensing issues

2013-12-22 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 21:43:17 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 21:14:54 UTC, Stephen Jones wrote: Isn't there a problem using Microsoft's visual studio to link for 64 bit in that visual studio 2013 is free only for enrolled students? Recent versions of Visual

Re: visual c++ licensing issues

2013-12-22 Thread Brad Anderson
On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 21:14:54 UTC, Stephen Jones wrote: Isn't there a problem using Microsoft's visual studio to link for 64 bit in that visual studio 2013 is free only for enrolled students? Recent versions of Visual Studio Express (which is free for everyone) should work fine.

Re: visual c++ licensing issues

2013-12-22 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/22/2013 1:14 PM, Stephen Jones wrote: Isn't there a problem using Microsoft's visual studio to link for 64 bit in that visual studio 2013 is free only for enrolled students? Yes, there is. If you want to gen 64 bit Windows code for dmd you'll need a VS license of one sort or another. H

visual c++ licensing issues

2013-12-22 Thread Stephen Jones
Isn't there a problem using Microsoft's visual studio to link for 64 bit in that visual studio 2013 is free only for enrolled students?