D in my trashbin

[Xavier Bigand via Digitalmars-d]

Le 24/10/2014 15:26, Meta a écrit :
> On Friday, 24 October 2014 at 13:04:48 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:42:47 +0000
>> Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday, 24 October 2014 at 02:44:48 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>> > I always just use the zip which works fine out of the box > without
>>> even needing to be installed.
>>>
>>> We're missing an installation guide on a prominent place on the front
>>> page.
>>> Such things really scare away a lot of people.
>> if we scaring away people who can't download and run one .exe, this
>> can't be bad thing. there is clear link do download insteller on
>> dlang.org. when i was in need to write simple program on win8 box, i
>> downloaded that .exe, started it, pressed some "next" and "finish"
>> buttons and... voila, dmd compiler is here and working. if this is way
>> too hard for someone, then i doubt that he should write programs at all.
>
> There are other more subtle problems that someone can run into. One
> problem I've encountered on Windows is that having a '+' in your path
> trips up Optlink (Notepad++ triggered this issue for me). Linking starts
> failing for no apparent reason, and it is extremely frustrating until
> you figure out what's wrong (and still maddening afterword to think that
> such a stupid bug exists). Let's try to help debug the problem rather
> than making presumptions about OPs technical knowledge.

Yep I got this issue, I spent a long time to figure it out.

Otherwise installation is pretty simple and standard for a developer.