LDC 0.16.0 beta2 is out! Try out before we create the final release!

[kinke via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Friday, 16 October 2015 at 09:50:08 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> A default 64 bit Windows installation lacks the 
> vcruntime140.dll and msvcp140.dll.

LDC is linked dynamically against the MS C runtime, so you need 
the VS 2015 runtime. You'll actually need VS 2015 (not just the 
runtime) later for linking anyway; VS 2013 is only supported when 
building LDC yourself. This is mentioned in 
http://wiki.dlang.org/Latest_pre-built_LDC_for_Win64.

> If you have those dlls in 64 bit versions and you compile, it 
> says some syntax is wrong and stops with:
>
> Error: ...\ldc2\bin\amd64.bat failed with status: 1

This is LDC issue #1152 
(https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/1152), which is 
fixed in master. You may just go ahead and download the latest CI 
build from 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/LDC-Win64-master.