Building bits of D [was Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption]

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 02:46 -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On 6/6/2016 2:07 AM, tsbockman wrote:
> > The Windows build for DMD, etc. seems to require tools that
> > Microsoft no longer
> > distributes publicly. I asked about this, but no one replied...
> >     http://forum.dlang.org/post/lzmnllscqyyuqlusrwwe@forum.dlang.or
> > g
> 
> 
> Building dmd with Microsoft C++ isn't an official build. Building it
> with DMC++ 
> is, works fine, and does not depend on Microsoft tools.

But standard C++ should be compilable with any standards compliant C++
compiler. So if it C++ and compiles with DMC++ then it should compile
with MS C++.
 
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Russel.
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