[Issue 19624] x64 Build paths for VS 2017 are wrong after installation. VCINSTALL is deeper

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19624

Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario at gmx.de> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario at gmx.de> ---
I suspect your installation without any workload caused the default paths to be
wrong. Here are the usual settings for DMD/x64:

Executable paths:
$(VCTOOLSINSTALLDIR)bin\HostX86\x86
$(VSINSTALLDIR)Common7\IDE
$(WindowsSdkDir)bin
$(DMDInstallDir)windows\bin

Library paths:
$(VCTOOLSINSTALLDIR)lib\x64
$(UCRTSdkDir)Lib\$(UCRTVersion)\ucrt\x64
$(WindowsSdkDir)lib\$(WindowsSdkVersion)\um\x64

Linker:
$(VCTOOLSINSTALLDIR)bin\HostX86\x86\link.exe

>While it turned out to be important AND undocumented that VS needs
>"Visual Studio extension development" extension I have the feeling
> that MSVC folder content was created only after "Desktop development
> with C++ " installation in VS => right? Should be in docu as well.

The missing assembly probably comes with any other "workload" aswell as it is
used by most project wizars. It's true that "C++ development" is expected so
far, I wasn't aware that you could almost get something working without that.

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