64-bit DMD for windows?

[steven kladitis via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 20:10:29 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 5/14/2014 2:28 PM, steven kladitis wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 13 May 2014 at 13:53:36 UTC, Manu via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> On 13 May 2014 23:24, steven kladitis via Digitalmars-d
>>> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> if the -m64 lets the compiled code use 64 bit registers and 
>>>> ints are
>>>> now 64
>>>> bit then great! What is VC++, is it free?
>>>
>>> Pointers are 64bits.
>>> int is 32 bits, long is 64 bits.
>>> size_t is 64 bits.
>>>
>>> VC++ is Microsoft's compiler, DMD-x64 uses the de-facto 
>>> standard
>>> Microsoft linker, since OPTLINK doesn't support 64bit.
>>> It is available for free.
>>
>> I have installed it and am still unable to compile a 64 bit D 
>> program.
>>
>> C:\d\dmd2\samples\d>dmd wc.d
>>
>> C:\d\dmd2\samples\d>dmd -m64 wc.d
>> --- errorlevel -1073741515
>
> If you use the Windows Installer for DMD after you've installed 
> VC++, then it should automatically set everything up for you (I 
> haven't tried it personally, but I know the DMD Win Installer 
> people went to a lot of effort to make it work, so it should 
> work).
>
> Oh, I forgot to mention, you'll also need to install the 
> Microsoft's Windows SDK (not sure if that's automatically done 
> when installing VC++ or not.) So after VC++ and the WinSDK are 
> installed, then run DMD's Windows installer, and you should be 
> good.
>
> Or you can manually setup DMD's sc.ini with the right paths to 
> VC++ and the WinSDK (that's what I did), but it's probably 
> easier to just run the DMD Windows Installer again after all 
> the MS stuff is installed.

I see that this thread is over 3 years old.  I am totally 
enjoying D. I love assembler programming.  I am just dissapointed 
that there is simple way to compile 64 bit code as of 2014 in 
windows.  I am still unable to compile 64 bit in windows 7 or 8.