Help needed testing automatic win64 configuration

[Brad Anderson]

On Thursday, 17 October 2013 at 00:03:15 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 16 October 2013 11:15, Brad Anderson <eco at gnuk.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 06:38:30 UTC, dnewbie wrote:
>>
>>> VS 2010 Express/Windows SDK 7.0:
>>>
>>> dmd -m64 hello.d
>>> Can't run 'c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
>>> 10.0\VC\bin\amd64\link.exe', check PATH
>>>
>>> with dmd-2.064-beta-new-sc.ini-2.**exe
>>>
>>
>> I believe you need the 7.1 SDK.  7.0 does not come with the 
>> 64-bit
>> toolset.  I'm not certain about the paths in an Express/7.1 
>> setup.
>>
>
> FYI, the 7.1 SDK is a downloadable SDK, it's not included with 
> any version
> of Visual Studio.
> 7.0 and 7.0A (included with VS2008, 2010) certainly do have 
> 64bit libs.
>
> The x64 compiler was available since VS2005 (I don't remember 
> the lib path).
> VS2008 uses the 'Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v7.0', and VS2010 uses 
> 'Microsoft
> SDKs/Windows/v7.0A'.
> The 7.1 package that you can download if obviously in 'Microsoft
> SDKs/Windows/v7.1'.
>
> VS2012 was the first to support Windows 8 and the 'metro' API, 
> and for some
> reason they messed around with the traditional lib paths.
> The new location is the weird 'Windows Kits\8.0'.

I was referring only to VS 2010 Express which does not include a 
compiler/linker capable of building 64 bit code.  You can get 
them with the 7.1 SDK though.

More information: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1865069/how-to-compile-a-64-bit-application-using-visual-c-2010-express