Exception with current version of dmd(2.066.1) and VisualD (v0.3.40)

[Vincent R via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 21:50:52 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On 2/5/2015 4:23 AM, Vincent R wrote:
>> it would be cool also to be able to edit a previous post
>
> The forum is a web frontend to a newsgroup.

Ok thanks for the information.
I have found some threads about WinMain and main here:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/mailman.199.1389129967.15871.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com

and I might try it but in this case why VisualD still uses 
deprecated sample code and propose to use WinMain ?
Why does it also use a deprecated method 
(Runtime.initialize(SomeArg))

IS is because I have installed a few month ago VisualD and it 
keeps some old template ?
if it's not the case would it be possible to fix it ?

The way of choosing between dmd and gdc also really sucks and is 
really not clear because inside the settings you can declare the 
two paths but you don't really know which compiler will be 
choosen. From what I understand you have to choose it from the 
beginning when you choose a project type...

Final remark why the compilation is done through a bat script 
instead of declaring a MSBuild VCToolTask ? I suppose that 
developping a VCToolTask is a bit more complicated but provides 
more control over the compiler.

Please have a look here to see how to do it:
https://code.google.com/p/vs-android/source/checkout

I have already developped a Visual Studio plugin to support a 
language called ObjectiveJ(from Cappuccino web framework) so if 
there is some need I might find some time to contribute.