DMD under 64-bit Windows 7 HOWTO

[Adam Wilson]

On Sun, 26 May 2013 07:12:32 -0700, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org>  
wrote:

> Am 26.05.2013 07:03, schrieb Adam Wilson:
>> On Sat, 25 May 2013 18:24:41 -0700, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> FYI. DMD did not work out-of-the-box on a vanilla VS2012/Win8 install.
>> The Windows 8 SDK no longer includes the C++ compilers and VS2012
>> doesn't setup the Environment Variables used in sc.ini.
>>
>
> You can get them via the Desktop Express version, the one they added  
> back after peer pressure.
>

Indeed. I have VS2012 Premium, but it does mean that you have to repath  
your environment variables to the Visual Studio folders instead of the  
Windows SDK folders and that you need to have VS installed.

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