DMD under 64-bit Windows 7 HOWTO

[Walter Bright]

On 5/25/2013 10:03 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
> On Sat, 25 May 2013 18:24:41 -0700, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> FYI. DMD did not work out-of-the-box on a vanilla VS2012/Win8 install. The
> Windows 8 SDK no longer includes the C++ compilers and VS2012 doesn't setup the
> Environment Variables used in sc.ini.
>
> But the most annoying part is that using the Win8 SDK causes the linker to spit
> out dozens of external symbol resolution failures. It was at this point that I
> gave up.

Microsoft linker changing constantly and breaking things was why Zortech decided 
to do their own linker back in the 80's.


BTW, nothing will get fixed if you don't file bugzilla reports!