Note from a donor

[codephantom]

On Thursday, 26 October 2017 at 20:44:49 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> The XCode installer DMG is 5GB, before unpacking. And unlike 
> VS17, I can't pick and choose. :)

btw. (and I do realise we've gone way of the topic of this 
original thread)...but...

if it interests anyone, this is the outcome of yesterday, where I 
wasted my whole day trying to get DMD to compile a 64bit .exe on 
a fresh install of Windows 7.

(and ..I had to muck around with service packs, and .NET 
frameworks and stuff before hand too).

It's the *minimum* 'selection set' you'll need (with regards to 
the Visual Studio Build Tools 2017) in order to get DMD to 
sucessfully compile a 64bit exe (-m64)

Now to be fair, this is assuming you **don't** want and **don't** 
have VS installed, but just want the necessary 'build tools' so 
that DMD can build a *64bit* binary on Windows - (in total about 
3.5GB).


Code tools
	Static analysis tools

Compilers, build tools, and runtimes
	VC++ 2017 v141 toolset (x86,x64)

SDK's, libraries and frameworks
	Windows 10 SDK (10.0.16299.0) for Desktop C++ [x86 and x64]
	Windows 10 SDK (10.0.16299.0) for UWP: C#, VB, JS
	Windows 10 SDK (10.0.16299.0) for UWP: C++