Running vibe.d tutorial on Windows?

[Andre Pany]

On Tuesday, 26 February 2019 at 10:46:24 UTC, JN wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 February 2019 at 10:35:10 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 26 February 2019 at 10:34:19 UTC, bauss wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 26 February 2019 at 08:11:15 UTC, shadowgun1102 
>>> wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to run/build the vibe.d tutorial on Windows. When 
>>>> I run the following:
>>>>
>>>> dub init tut -t vibe.d
>>>> cd tut
>>>> dub
>>>>
>>>> I get this error: https://postimg.cc/gwTB6y0G
>>>>
>>>> I tried adding
>>>>
>>>> "subConfigurations": {"vibe-d": "win32"}
>>>>
>>>> to my dub.json, but that didn't seem to change anything.
>>>
>>> Compile with -a=x8s_mscoff
>>>
>>> Plenty of discussions about it.
>>
>> -a=x86_mscoff
>>
>> Sorry for the typo.
>
> Any reason why it's not the default? I don't see any reasons 
> for x86 (rather than x86_64) to be the default, given how many 
> problems it causes. Honestly, even better, on 64bit OSes (99% 
> of users?) x86_64 should be the default.

My understanding is, just someone is needed to create the pull 
request.
There were good reasons in the past to have x86, in the meantime 
a lot changed
and we should change to x86_64 and 64 bit dmd sooner than later.

Kind regards
André