DMD under 64-bit Windows 7 HOWTO

[Adam Wilson]

On Sun, 26 May 2013 00:41:46 -0700, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> 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!
>

Well, I wasn't sure if it was the linker or the libraries, because I also  
go some weird corrupt file errors with shell32 for example...

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