How do you use D?

[Andre Pany]

On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 15:52:15 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
>
> 3) It is not possible to run DMD with the microsoft linker and 
> libs without adapting the sc.ini.
> That is a pain! In the build infrastructure I can only use the 
> dmd zip archive and not
> the setup routine. Also the adapation of the sc.ini I need to 
> automate in a python script (XMake build plugin).
> Python does not like the sc.ini... due to duplicate keys...
>
> Just compare with LDC windows 64. You only have to extract the 
> zip archive, call vcvarsall batch
> file which sets the environment variables and thats it!
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17967
>

It seems with the recent version of DMD (2.078.0) there is new 
feature which
solves this problem 
(https://dlang.org/changelog/2.078.0.html#vs-auto-detection)

That's fantastic! Thanks a lot!
I will try it and then close the issue.

Also the new options for customizing the code coverage seems like 
you heard my wishes
within my mind;)

Great work!

Kind regards
André