Visual D support for VS 2008 and 32-bit Windows

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 23.09.2017 15:56, AB wrote:
> Hello, I am currently using:
> * Windows XP SP3 32-bit
> * Visual Studio 2008 SP1
> 
> I receive the following error when trying to build a HelloWorld example:
> 
> "C:\Program Files\VisualD\pipedmd.exe is not a valid Win32 application."
> 
> My questions are:
> (1) Is the newest Visual D still meant to support legacy setups such as 
> mine?
> (2) If yes, why isn't there a 32-bit build?
> (3) If not, what is the last release of Visual D known to work on my setup?
> 
> Thank you.
> 

It is supposed to work, yes. I suspect the problem is that the 32-bit 
executables have been linked with the MS-linker default OS version 6.0.

I switched to the MS linker with v0.45.1, so any version before that 
should work on XP, too.