Getting DUB to work with VS 2017

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 22.05.2017 03:54, Enjoys Math wrote:
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> C:\Users\Gabe\AppData\Roaming\dub\packages\pyd-0.9.9\pyd\\infrastructure\windows\python27_digitalmars.lib+ 
> 
> user32.lib+
> kernel32.lib/NOMAP/CO/NOI/DELEXE
> LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 
> 'obj\debug\dummy\dummy\dummy\dummy\dummy\dummy\dummy\pegparser\..\source\led_ux_grammar.obj+' 
> 
> Building 
> C:\Users\Gabe\Dropbox\MyProjects\___SOUND_UNITED\LED_UX_Designer\lang\PEGparser\PEGparser.exe 
> failed!
> Details saved as 
> "file://C:\Users\Gabe\Dropbox\MyProjects\___SOUND_UNITED\LED_UX_Designer\lang\PEGparser\.dub\obj\debug\dummy\dummy\dummy\dummy\dummy\dummy\dummy\pegparser\pegparser.buildlog.html" 
> 
> ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 1 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

This looks like the wrong link.exe has been found in path. When building 
for Win32/x86 the default is to use optlink that is installed with dmd. 
The error message is issued by MS link instead.

I suspect the DMD installation folder is not set correctly (check 
Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions->Visual D Settings->DMD 
directories). Please also check the executable search paths below, they 
should include "$(DMDInstallDir)windows\bin". There was a bug in Visual 
D 0.44.0 where a bad character sneaked into the path to DMD's bin folder.

 > Opening any of the dub.json files with red X's opens them, but then 
immediately crashes VS.

The red cross means it's not part of the build, so that's correct.

The crash is not ok. I can reproduce it, seems to happen due to a 
function not being implemented (which seems fine for other files).