Release D 2.078.0

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 08.01.2018 08:56, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 17:43:36 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> Glad to announce D 2.078.0.
>>
>> This release comes with runtime detection of Visual Studio 
>> installation paths, an integral promotion transition for unary 
>> operations on byte and short sized integers, more -betterC features, 
>> and a couple of language and library tweaks.
>>
>> Thanks to everyone involved in this 👏 
>> https://dlang.org/contributors.html.
>>
>> http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.078.0/ 
>> http://dlang.org/changelog/2.078.0.html
>>
>> - -Martin
> 
> It seems vs-auto-detection does not work with the Visual Studio 2017 
> Community version:
> 
> I executed "vcvars64.bat". After that environment variable PATH contains 
> following
> entries:
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual 
> Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\bin\HostX64\x64;
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual 
> Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\VC\VCPackages;
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual 
> Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow;
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
> ...
> 
> dmd app.d -m64
> Error: can't run 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual 
> Studio\2017\Community\VC\\bin\link.exe', check PATH
> 
> I checked the location and link.exe is available in the very first 
> element of PATH environment variable:
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual 
> Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\bin\Hostx64\x64
> 
> Could you check?
> 
> Kind regards
> André
> 
> 

Unfortunately the corresponding installer PRs didn't make it into the 
release, so you still have to remove most options of section 
Environment64 from sc.ini yourself. This should be enough

[Environment64]
LIB=%@P%\..\lib64
DFLAGS=%DFLAGS% -L/OPT:NOICF

When using the 7z dmd file, the most harmful setting is LINKCMD, that 
doesn't work for VS2017.