Weird compiler

mogu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jun 19 09:24:53 PDT 2016


On Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 15:06:40 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 14:05:22 UTC, mogu wrote:
>> It's awful that I compile a little 64bit program(or 
>> -m32mscoff) in windows must have visual studio which has 
>> tremendous size installed even though I only need a linker. 
>> It's weird that a compiler compiles to binary targets needs 
>> another compiler or tools. Sigh.
>
> Microsoft now releases the Visual C++ Build Tools separately, 
> which contain their C++ toolchain without the IDE parts 
> (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/31/announcing-the-official-release-of-the-visual-c-build-tools-2015/).
>
>  — David

I just tested. After the build tools 2015 installed, DMD 
installer says "no compatible version(MSVC or SDK) founded, Do 
you want to install VS2013?".


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