LDC 0.16.0 alpha2 is out!

[Kai Nacke via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 04:22:29 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 at 22:25:40 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
>> The Win64 MSVC version is still considered alpha quality.
>
> I'm actually having some issues with this if anyone can help me.
>
> LDC seems to default to trying to use Optlink for some reason. 
> This seems strange considering that all the switches are in 
> msvc format. Anyway I can get it to default to msvc instead?
>
> ldc2.conf doesn't seem to have any information on the linker 
> being used.

Hi Jeremy,

you need to have the Windows SDK installed (or better VS2015). If 
you use the "VS2015 x64 Native Tools Command Prompt" then 
everything should compile. Just make sure that "link" is really 
the Microsoft Linker. (Just type link/help on the command line. 
The output should be something like

Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 14.00.23026.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

    For help on Linker, type `link /link' or `link'
    For help on Library Manager, type `link /lib' or `lib'
    For help on Dumper, type `link /dump' or `dumpbin'
    For help on Editor, type `link /edit' or `editbin'
    For help on CvtCIL, type `link /cvtcil'

If it still runs Optlink then remove dmd2\windows\bin from your 
PATH variable.

Regards,
Kai