Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Walter Bright]

On 9/1/2013 6:19 AM, Manu wrote:
> Hmmm, I found details on the net that recommended adding an [Environment64]
> section, which we did.
>
> I don't seem to have VCINSTALLDIR or WindowsSdkDir variables on my system :/ ..
> that said, VC obviously works on my machine.

Sorry if I am being repetitive here, but what environment variables is VS 
setting on your machine?

> It also seems potentially problematic that a variable would define a single
> install directory, since it's pretty common that programmers have multiple
> versions of VS on their machines.
> I have VS2010 and VS2012 on my machine. Simon had VS2012 and VS2013.

Yes, so what environment variables should sc.ini use to determine which one the 
user wants to use for dmd?

> I was also thinking it might be a mistake to keep phobos64.lib in the same
> folder as the 32bit omf libs. If paths are wrong, the link errors will only be
> understood by a programmer who understands compilers and lib/object formats in
> depth.
> Perhaps you should put them in a parallel lib64 directory, and hook that up in
> [Environment64] (I did that on my machine while trying to isolate problems and
> wort out where paths were coming from)?

Please, I need specifics.

> I reckon you should look into hooking up DirectX SDK patahing by default too
> since it's so common for basically any multimedia app.

I have no idea what you mean by this?