any chance to get it working on windows xp?

[Mike Parker]

On Sunday, 17 May 2020 at 22:30:22 UTC, a beginner wrote:

> I have searched online for some info, indeed I found something, 
> but not being familiar with the tools it hasn't been terribly 
> useful. Only it confirms that windows support is somewhat 
> disappointing in general, xp or not.

I've been using D on Windows since I first found it in 2003. From 
my perspective, Windows support is fairly solid.

> It seems to me my best chance is to stay with dmd 2.085.1, try 
> fix the cache problem in dub 1.11 myself (or give up on that 
> and build "by hand"), probably wrestle some linking problems 
> (pretty sure I wouldn't succeed with that) and be happy until I 
> can upgrade. After all, these days programming is just a hobby 
> for me. But honestly, all this is quite annoying for a 
> beginner. In my experience, trouble getting the tools to work 
> is often the biggest obstacle in learning a new language (well, 
> unless it's something really weird...), which in many cases 
> means giving up after some cursing.

Unfortunately, the minimum Windows version "officially" supported 
is Windows 7:

https://forum.dlang.org/post/ktfgps$2ghh$1@digitalmars.com

With no testing on XP, you are bound to run into difficulties 
trying to use the tools there. So yeah, your best bet is using a 
compiler version that works and see if building dub from source 
makes a difference. If you can't get dub to work, then you'll 
want to look into using rdmd, which has shipped with dmd for 
years now, or perhaps makefiles.