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

[ZombineDev via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Friday, 16 October 2015 at 19:01:12 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> kinke:
>
>> so you need the VS 2015 runtime. You'll actually need VS 2015 
>> (not just the runtime) later for linking anyway;
>
> Is the "community" (free) version enough?
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Yes VS 2015 Community has more or less the feature set of VS 
2010-2013 Professional from previous years, but without some of 
the more advanced testing, architecture modeling tools and 
debugging. For example there is no longer the limitation about 
installing plugins and extensions like the Express version had.

It should have all the necessary libraries for linking under
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\lib\ (for 
32-bit) and
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\amd64\lib 
(for 64-bit)
or something like that.

For example if you want to link a D static library to a C++ 
program you can use the new support for VS 2015 CRT in DMD 
v2.069.0 beta like this:

[under VS2015 x86 Native Tools Command Prompt]
dmd -lib -m32mscoff my_d_library.d
cl /nologo my_cpp_program.cpp my_d_library.lib 
C:\D\dmd2\windows\lib32mscoff\phobos32mscoff.lib "C:\Program 
Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
14.0\VC\lib\legacy_stdio_definitions.lib"

I think it should work in a similar way for LDC.