Help needed testing automatic win64 configuration

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 20.10.2013 05:51, Brad Anderson wrote:
> Fifth and hopefully final version. Not much changed. I put this together
> so it represented the final iteration of my changes that will be going
> into pull requests.
>
> I stopped it from downloading a modified dmd2beta.zip (because of the
> licensing issue I'd forgotten about) and just download the original and
> move phobos64.lib and gcstub64.obj to lib64 in the installer.  DMD now
> supports (as of 2.064 beta 2) LINKCMD in Environment64 so I no longer
> need dmd changes.
>
> http://gnuk.net/dmd-2.064-beta-new-sc.ini-5.exe
>
> People using Visual Studio Express 2010 and Windows SDK 7.0A: Sorry,
> couldn't think of a good solution for that combo.
>
> Thanks to everyone who helped me test.
>
> Relevant pull requests:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2684
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1652
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/pull/22 (putting
> some finishing touches on this in a moment then calling it good)


I finally got around to making a version of Visual D that should work 
for x64 out of the box with both the zip distribution and the new D 
windows installer. Unfortunately it has to override the settings made by 
the installer to sc.ini.

I have prepared a release candidate here:

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald/releases

3 tiny nitpicks regarding the D installer:
- it does not remember the directory of a previous installation
- it is listed in the "Program and Features" as a mere "D" without any 
further info. That could be a bit more verbose.
- it would be nice if it could also provide a download of the 64-bit 
curl library

The link to the Visual D installer will probably get invalid pretty 
soon, so maybe we should add some "LATEST" file somewhere in the 
repository to grab the link to the latest release?