Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Manu]

On 2 September 2013 11:41, Brad Anderson <eco at gnuk.net> wrote:

> On Sunday, 1 September 2013 at 21:08:24 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> On 9/1/2013 1:56 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/1/13, Brad Anderson <eco at gnuk.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What I need from you guys and your different VS installs is,
>>>>> for each one, a bug report with what is necessary to get it
>>>>> installed. Then we can add it to the modern version of my
>>>>> floppy disk "linker collection".
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This can be automated easily enough.  The installer can detect
>>>> what versions of VS are installed and either set an environment
>>>> variable or modify sc.ini (your choice).  It could probably be
>>>> made forward compatible since Microsoft has been using basically
>>>> the same paths and registry keys for every new release since at
>>>> least VS 2005.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, and VS comes out what, maybe once a year? This is possible to
>>> implement and maintain. If it weren't, then installing VS plugins
>>> would be impossible, but as far as I know it mostly works out of the
>>> box (hell, VisualD does it, so why can't we do something as simple as
>>> detect VS paths?)
>>>
>>>
>> Pull requests are, of course, welcome.
>>
>
> https://github.com/D-**Programming-Language/**installer/pull/22<https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/pull/22>
>
> It can detect (through registry keys) the paths of Visual C++ 10, 11, and
> 12 (2010, 2012, and 2013) and Windows SDK 7.0A, 7.1A, 8.0, and 8.1.  It
> modifies the sc.ini installed from the zip file by substituting the
> defaults with the detected paths (which makes it important I have
> accurately reflected what the sc.ini defaults will be).
>
> I only have VC 10 to test with myself (and lack the disk space to have
> concurrent installations of all 3).  I installed the Windows SDK 7.0A
> (comes with VC 10), 8.0, and 8.1 though I couldn't actually use 8.0 and 8.1
> successfully because of the path tail issue Dmitry pointed out (and you
> opened a pull request to fix).
>
> The combination of VC 10 and SDK 8.1 did not work (link errors) but VC 10
> with 7.0A worked perfectly.  I imagine you need to pair the SDK with the
> version of VC that was released around the same time.
>

Huzzah! Give the man a beer! :)

How about the DirectX SDK?
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6812
It's super standard aswell for anyone working on multimedia software.
It has an environment variable on my machine: DXSDK_DIR = C:\Program Files
(x86)\Microsoft DirectX SDK (June 2010)\
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