DMD under 64-bit Windows 7 HOWTO

[Manu]

I  might just add, that if you have Visual Studio installed (which I
presume many Windows dev's do), then you don't need to do ANYTHING.
DMD64 just works if VS is present.

I didn't do a single thing to get DMD-Win64 working. And it's working great.

You should make sure this is clear at the top of any wiki entry.

Perhaps a future push to convince Walter to port DMD-Win32 to COFF/WinSDK
aswell might be nice ;)
Win32 is still an important platform for many (most?) users.


On 18 December 2012 23:32, Gor Gyolchanyan <gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com>wrote:

> Good day, fellow D developers.
> After spending much time figuring out how to make DMD work fluently under
> 64-bit Windows 7 I've realized that this is not a trivial task and lots of
> people might have trouble with this, so I've decided to post my solution,
> that might save people a lot of time.
> As we know, there are compatibility problems with 32-bit DMD binaries,
> because they are compiled using DMC back-end, which can only produce OMF
> binaries, so in order to avoid problems with linking against externally
> compiled libraries, it's much easier to stick to 64-bit binaries, so that
> DMD will use the Visual Studio linker to produce compatible COFF binaries.
> Another problem is that 32-bit DMD binaries are linked against obsolete
> 32-bit WinAPI libraries, which lack some very important functions, while
> the 64-bit binaries are required to link with the 64-bit libraries,
> supplied by the the Windows SDK.
>
> And here's how this could be arranged:
>
> 1. Prepare your development folder.
> 1.1. Create a folder with no spaces in its full path.
>  1.2. Store its full path in the '%DEV_DIR_ROOT%' environment variable.
> 2. Get the Windows SDK.
> 2.1. Download the Windows SDK.
>  2.1.1. Navigate to '
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows//bb980924.aspx' in a web browser.
>  2.1.2. Under section 2 (number '2' in a green circle) click on the bold
> blue 'Install Now' link.
> 2.1.3. In the opened window click in the blue 'Download' button at the
> bottom of the page.
>  2.1.4. Make sure, that the Windows SDK installer ('winsdk_web.exe') is
> downloaded.
> 2.2. Install the downloaded Windows SDK.
>  2.2.1. Navigate to the folder, where the Windows SDK installer was
> downloaded in a file browser.
> 2.2.2. Double-click on the installer and agree to security warnings to
> launch it.
>  2.2.3. Click next, read and agree to the license until you reach the
> 'Install Locations' screen.
> 2.2.4. Store the path under 'Destination Folder for Tools' in the
> '%DEV_DIR_MSWINSDK%' (e.g. 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
> SDKs\Windows\v7.0A') and click 'Next >'.
>  2.3.3. On the 'Installation Options' uncheck everything except 'x64
> Libraries' and 'Visual C++ Compilers' and click 'Next >'.
>  2.3.4. Confirm that everything is correct and click 'Next >' to start
> installing.
> 2.3.5. Make sure, tata the installation is completed succesfully.
>  2.3.6. Store the path to the installed Visual Studio C++ compiler into
> the '%DEV_DIR_MSVC%' environment variable (e.g. 'C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC').
> 3. Get the DMD.
> 3.1. Navigate to 'http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd2beta.zip' in a web
> browser.
>  3.2. Make sure, that the DMD compiler archive ('dmd2beta.zip') is
> downloaded.
> 3.3. Unzip the archive into '%DEV_DIR_ROOT%\Tools', so that the 'dmd2'
> folder in the archive will end up in '%DEV_DIR_ROOT%\Tools\dmd2'.
>  3.4. Adapt the compiler configuration to the development environment.
> 3.4.1. Open the file '%DEV_DIR_ROOT%\Tools\dmd2\windows\bin\sc.ini' in a
> text editor.
>  3.4.2. Replace the line with 'LIB=' with the line
> 'LIB="%DEV_DIR_WINSDK%\Lib\x64";"%DEV_DIR_MSVC%\lib\amd64";"%@P%\..\lib"'.
>  3.4.3. Add '-m64 -L/NOLOGO' to  the 'DFLAGS' variable.
> 3.4.4. Remove the lines with 'VCINSTALLDIR=' and 'WindowsSdkDir='.
>  3.4.5. Replace the like with 'LINKCMD64=' with the line
> 'LINKCMD64="%DEV_DIR_MSVC%\bin\amd64\link.exe"'
>  Now "%DEV_DIR_ROOT%\Tools\dmd2\windows\bin\dmd.exe" will always use the
> Windows SDK libraries and Visual C++ compiler to produce 64-bit COFF
> binaries.
>
> I hope I was helpful, because when I started to set up a development
> environment under 64-bit Windows 7, I went through a lot of problems to get
> here and I'd love to have this HOWTO at that time.
>
> --
> Bye,
> Gor Gyolchanyan.
>
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