DMD VS2017 Support

[Jolly James via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 May 2017 at 18:30:53 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>
> On 01.05.2017 10:03, Igor wrote:
>> On Monday, 1 May 2017 at 01:54:30 UTC, evilrat wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> That was it. It didn't occur to me that this was the problem 
>> because I
>> payed closed attention during VisualD installation and saw it 
>> properly
>> recognized where DMD was installed but for some reason the 
>> path wasn't
>> set in Options. Once I did set it, compile and build worked. 
>> Thanks
>> evilrat!
>>
>> So in conclusion it seems the problem is in VisualD 
>> installation which
>> doesn't set the path properly even though it recognizes where 
>> DMD is
>> installed. Hope the author takes a look at this problem so 
>> beginners
>> wanting to try D don't give up on a problem like this.
>
> VS 2017 uses a "private" registry that the Visual D installer 
> doesn't have access to. I'll change the registry location in 
> the next release.
>
> Please note that the next dmd installer will also detect VS2017 
> and setup directories correctly in sc.ini: 
> https://github.com/dlang/installer/pull/227

Today I saw that a new DMD version had been released. So I 
downloaded it (dmd-2.074.1.exe).

Unfortunately, the installer does *not* detect VS2017, instead it 
asks me to install VS2013 for x64 support.