Visual D support for VS 2008 and 32-bit Windows

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 25.09.2017 22:29, AB wrote:
> On Monday, 25 September 2017 at 17:55:08 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>
>> The error message is wrong in this case, the actual problem is 
>> probably that VS2008 doesn't come with MS-Build (which includes 
>> tracker.exe), or it isn't found.
>>
>> You could either try installing MSBuild or go back to Visual D 0.44.2. 
>> That version has an alternative mechanism for dependency tracking 
>> (which might cause some unnecessary builds due to changes in dmd 2.076).
> 
> For simplicity, I will downgrade to Visual D 0.44.2.
> 
> That said, which version of MSBuild would be appropriate in my case? 
> Version 2015 (14) has requirements above Windows XP.

MSBuild 12.0 should be fine. I have found an old version of it on a 
backup that should run on XP, but my current installation seems to 
require Win7.

> 
> Back to Visual D, do you intend to fix these compatibility issues in 
> future releases? Or will you drop support for legacy OS/IDE?
> 

If it is actually only the OS version that needs to be specified on the 
linker command line, I plan to fix that. I'm not aware of other problems 
but can't guarantee it will continue to work.