Visual D support for VS 2008 and 32-bit Windows

AB ab396356 at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Sep 25 20:29:19 UTC 2017


On Monday, 25 September 2017 at 17:55:08 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:
>
> The error message is wrong in this case, the actual problem is 
> probably that VS2008 doesn't come with MS-Build (which includes 
> tracker.exe), or it isn't found.
>
> You could either try installing MSBuild or go back to Visual D 
> 0.44.2. That version has an alternative mechanism for 
> dependency tracking (which might cause some unnecessary builds 
> due to changes in dmd 2.076).

For simplicity, I will downgrade to Visual D 0.44.2.

That said, which version of MSBuild would be appropriate in my 
case? Version 2015 (14) has requirements above Windows XP.

Back to Visual D, do you intend to fix these compatibility issues 
in future releases? Or will you drop support for legacy OS/IDE?



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