Status of Win64 DMD/MSVC path situation?

Nick Sabalausky SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com
Wed Sep 25 09:42:15 PDT 2013


On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:29:45 +0200
"Brad Anderson" <eco at gnuk.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 25 September 2013 at 16:26:14 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
> wrote:
> > I know there's been some work/discussion regarding improvements 
> > to how
> > DMD/sc.ini/whatever handles the paths for MSVC for Win64 
> > builds. I
> > haven't been following that closely, so I wanted to ask: What's 
> > the
> > current state of that? Is it decided how 2.064 is going to deal 
> > with
> > that, and if so, how exactly?
> 
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2509
> 
> It was closed with several people asking that Walter use 
> [Environment64] instead of LIBPATH64.  Walter hasn't replied so 
> it's a bit in limbo.

Hmm, ok. Am I correct in understanding that, for the average user, the
that'll be an inconsequential decision and *regardless* of how sc.ini
works the only thing they'll (hopefully) need to worry about is setting
their environment's %VCINSTALLDIR% and %WindowsSdkDir% vars?



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