DMD VS2017 Support

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d]

On 01.05.2017 10:03, Igor wrote:
> On Monday, 1 May 2017 at 01:54:30 UTC, evilrat wrote:
>> On Sunday, 30 April 2017 at 16:05:10 UTC, Igor wrote:
>>>
>>> I should also mention that compiling using DUB works. It only doesn't
>>> work from VS.
>>
>> Check your VisualD settings and make sure it has DMD path set up.
>> See under Tools>Options>Projects and solutions>Visual D Settings
>
> 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