Debugging D in windows

[moe via Digitalmars-d-debugger]

On Friday, 17 June 2016 at 09:24:10 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
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> On 16.06.2016 22:56, moe wrote:
>> On Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 07:40:17 UTC, moe wrote:
>>> [...]
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>> I still can't get past this error. It might be worth 
>> mentioning that the
>> problem only occurs when building for 64bit with the -m64 
>> flag. Is this
>> a known issue? Does D have problems with 64bit on windows?
>
> The 64-bit version uses the linker and the runtime of the 
> Visual C installation.
>
> Check the [Environment64] section in sc.ini in the 
> dmd2\windows\bin folder: it should set the LIB environment 
> variable to the library folder of your Visual C installation. 
> The dmd installer usually does this automatically, but might 
> have failed for some reason or you have opted out of detecting 
> it. In the latter case you should open the "VS x64 Native Tools 
> Command Prompt" to invoke dmd.

Awesome!

I just downloaded the zip file and adjusted some environment 
variables manually. I removed it again and used the installer 
instead. The sc.ini file now shows all the correct path and 
everything works as expected.

Thanks for taking the time to answer!