How do I correctly install packages for use with Visual Studio?

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Sunday, 16 October 2022 at 11:09:31 UTC, Decabytes wrote:
> I'm trying to set up Visual Studio 2022 with Visual D, and I'm 
> running into issues trying to get my project to build correctly.


Some recommendation to use Visual Studio:

- tutorial for installation here: 
https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/#Installing-Dlang-on-Windows

- then generate a Visual Studio solution with:

          dub generate visuald                        # default
          dub generate -a x86 visuald --compiler dmd  # for DMD, 
x86 arch
          dub generate -a x86_64 visuald -c conf      # x86_64 
arch, DUB configuration "conf"
          dub generate visuald --combined             # single 
VisualD project with all deps


- if you use libraries that work with DUB they should come with 
static libs, or have dynamic loaders instead. Building .lib files 
yourself is just more annoying, and you will have to do it for 
each system you want to support