D Lang installation on Windows, dependency on Visual Studio?

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 08:38:32 UTC, AB wrote:
> Installing D 2.072.0 on Windows 7 64-bit. After installation is 
> complete I get the following two error (warning?) messages, 
> screenshots here:
>
> http://imgur.com/a/5fydB
>
> For your convenience they read as follows:
>
> "Could not detect Visual Studio (2008-2015 are supported). No 
> 64-bit support."
>
> "Could not detect Windows SDK (6.0A-10.0 are supported). No 
> 64-bit support."
>
> So the above means that the DMD compiler will not be able to 
> generate 64-bit executables on my system, because a third-party 
> piece of software is missing? This is ridiculous, what does 
> Visual Studio have to do with DMD and its capability to 
> generate 64-bit code?
>
> "You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the 
> banana and the entire jungle."

It used to be possible to get just the command-line tools by 
installing the much smaller Windows SDK:

http://forum.dlang.org/post/hvdyyutbgehlefluvsup@forum.dlang.org

If that's not the case anymore, I suggest you take it up with 
Microsoft.