Windows DMD installer/VisualD still not detecting paths correctly

[Manu]

Hmm, so I jigged it so it's able to find mspdb100.dll, but now link.exe
complains: "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)."
That's weird.


On 5 January 2014 12:17, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it might be VisualD specific, and it seems like a version mismatch.
>
> In sc.ini I have: VCINSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
> Studio 11.0\VC\  (note: the vs2012 path)
> And beneath that path exists mspdb110.dll, but apparently the version of
> link.exe that VisualD invokes is looking for mspdb100.dll, which it doesn't
> find.
>
> We had some discussion where VisualD should try and override the sc.ini
> paths with the paths that were actually appropriate for the version of
> Visual Studio being used at the time. This is important to eliminate other
> version conflicts when linking VC C/C++ and D projects together within one
> solution. Visual Studio uses the toolset and libs related to the version of
> the IDE currently in use, therefore VisualD should also tell DMD to use the
> same toolset for compatibility.
>
> I use vs2010, although I also have vs2005 and vs2013 installed. It seems
> VisualD is invoking the correct linker since it's complaining about
> mspdb100.dll, which is the proper version for vs2010, but perhaps DMD is
> still getting another path for the supporting DLL's from sc.ini, which was
> set to the vs2012 paths (as noted above)?
>
> My suggestion from before was that under VisualD, DMD should _completely
> ignore_ sc.ini, and VisualD should provide all paths and arguments. As long
> as DMD gets any paths from sc.ini, I can only see it leading to problems
> under VisualD.
>
> Disclaimer: I'm not absolutely certain this is a correct analysis of the
> situation, but it seems this is what's happening.
>
>
> On 5 January 2014 10:47, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Fresh install of DMD + VisualD via the installer.
>> Building Win64, linker complains: "link.exe: Can't start because
>> mspdb100.dll is missing"
>>
>> We really need to get this right. Not sure what's special about my
>> system. Has anything in the installer or VisualD changed?
>> Last time I tested it was working.
>>
>
>
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