Building Visual D

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On 15.06.2016 23:37, Joerg Joergonson wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 21:22:25 UTC, Joerg Joergonson wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 21:11:30 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13.06.2016 20:14, Joerg Joergonson wrote:
>>>> On Monday, 13 June 2016 at 17:46:05 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> That is where those errors come from:
>>>>
>>>> Building just the build project gives the error
>>>>
>>>> Building ..\bin\Debug\build.sdk...
>>>> could not detect the Visual Studio SDK
>>>> Building ..\bin\Debug\sdk.success failed!
>>>>
>>>> I installed the sdk but I imagine 2015 is different than the one you
>>>> used.
>>>
>>> Sorry, you are right. It seems I've only built against the VS 2013
>>> SDK or earlier.
>>>
>>> I pushed some changes to also build with the VS 2015 SDK.
>>
>> Cool, thanks!
>
> Ok, the problem is that the sdk paths are not correct. MS now does some
> crazy versioning and all that:
>
> ...\Windows\Kits\10\Include\10.0.10586.0\um
>
> I used a junction and had to copy files from shared to um to get it to
> compile. I then get the error:
>
> std.file.FileException at std\file.d(578):
> ..\sdk\win32\10.0.10240.0\activdbg.d: The system cannot find the path
> specified.
>
> Not sure why it's looking there... I went head and copied the file to it
> though.. it's in sdk\port though in the visuald dir.
>
> That didn't work as I guess the path is the VD dir and not the Win
> kits... so I made it and copied.
>
> Then this error:
>
> ..\sdk\win32\10.0.10586.0\activdbg.d: The system cannot find the path
> specified.
>
>
> Which I did the same:
>
> Then I get something about project has been modified outside VS and get
> this error
>
>
> Translation successful!
> Visual Studio now prompts to reload the vsi project, but cannot do so
> because the build is still running.
> Please reload the solution manually.
> WindowsSdkDir=C:\Program Files\Windows\Kits\10\
> could not detect the Windows SDK library folder
> Building ..\bin\Debug\sdk_libs.success failed!
>
> Anyways, I feel this will continue until the correct paths are worked out.
>
> Any ideas? I'm using Windows Kit 10.
>

I've not yet adjusted the conversion to the Windows 10 SDK. I'll try to 
fix this, but maybe you can get hold of an Win 8.1 SDK in the mean time.

The version numbers inside the sdk\win32 folders are no good, this won't 
work.