DMD under 64-bit Windows 7 HOWTO

[Paulo Pinto]

On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 23:33:56 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, 26 May 2013 16:22:54 -0700, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> On 26 May 2013 15:03, Adam Wilson <flyboynw at gmail.com> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Ah wow, sorry! I had no idea!
>> I tent to lag 2-3 revisions behind the head of VS (finally 
>> using 2010) ;)
>> They seem to make every version worse!
>>
>
> Indeed. Some days I wonder if they actually care anymore.
>

Well they really try hard to piss off developers.

The last issue is the announcement that VS 2012 update 3 is the 
last one and developers will need to buy VS.Next for the 
remaining C++11 updates and the by side updates are actually not 
going to happen.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/05/08/some-thoughts-on-a-comment-about-vs-2012-3.aspx