How to install DMD 64bit on Windows?

qsdfghjk via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sat Oct 24 09:49:44 PDT 2015


On Saturday, 24 October 2015 at 16:06:24 UTC, ric maicle wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 October, 2015 02:50 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> Use the .exe installer and it will offer to download and 
>> install visual
>> studio for you as part for its process.
>
> Sorry to ask this but could anyone please explain why Visual 
> Studio is
> required by DMD 64-bit? (I have been away far too long than I 
> should
> have)
>
> Thanks

it's required for the standard C library (Digital Mars's one is 
32 bit only) and to link COFF objects (Digital Mars linker is 
only for OMF objects, produced by default only by DMD32).


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