Anybody know if I can build DMD with Visual Studio 2019?

WhatMeWorry kheaser at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 22:37:06 UTC 2020


On Tuesday, 1 December 2020 at 22:58:53 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:
>
> I'm trying to build DMD with Visual D under Visual Studio as 
> shown in the Wiki:
>
> https://wiki.dlang.org/Building_under_Windows
>
> The notes say to use the solution vcbuild:
>
> You should be able to build DMD using the visual studio 
> solution found in: dmd\src\vcbuild A typical choice is to build 
> the 64-bit debug version (the VisualD options are named 
> 'Release' and 'x64').  [Btw, Should that be "64-bit release 
> version" or "'Debug' and 'x64'"?]
>
> I do this with Visual Studio 2019 and I'm getting errors. 
> Should I be using Visual Studio 2017 or even VS 2013?  Didn't 
> want to waste time debugging if VS2019 is not supported.

It works now.  Not sure what I did to _not_ make it work 
yesterday.


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