Release D 2.078.1

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 25.01.2018 14:54, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 January 2018 at 15:16:02 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 23 January 2018 at 13:08:35 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
>>> On Monday, 22 January 2018 at 20:43:56 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>>>> Glad to announce D 2.078.1.
>>>
>>>
>>> The Windows 7z archive version now has much simpler sc.ini, in fact 
>>> too simple.
>>> With Visual C++ 2015 x64 Native Build Tools now trying to run
>>> dmd -m64 hi.d
>>> I get
>>> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libucrt.lib'
>>> Error: linker exited with status 1104
>>>
>>> So I needed to edit sc.ini and add back
>>> LIB=%LIB%;"%UniversalCRTSdkDir%\Lib\%UCRTVersion%\ucrt\x64"
>>> to the [Environment64] section.
>>>
>>> Then it went just as 2.078.0 - still missing 
>>> legacy_stdio_definitions.lib that I need to add manually in the 
>>> command line.
>>
>> Did you call vcvarsall in the current dos box/PowerShell? It is a tool 
>> included with all visual studio variants.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Andre
> 
> I just ran into this today. With the dmd 2.077.1 Windows installer 
> things just work, and it's never necessary to call vcvarsall.bat to 
> build D code for 64-bit.
> 
> Since dmd 2.078.0, with Visual Studio 2015, nothing works anymore, and 
> sc.ini doesn't seem to reference Visual Studio at all like it used to.
> 
> Atila

Visual Studio is supposed to be detected by dmd now, either from the 
environment or from the registry.

What errors do you get? Try running with -v to show the linker command line.