D for Game Development

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 at 14:57:17 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> Regardless, my point is more about the importance of a seamless 
> installation on Windows than necessarily about what is required 
> or not.


> This isn't unique to D. I just tried to install the Clang 
> Windows binary and I got a message about MSVC integration 
> failing. I have Visual Express 2008,

The express versions of Visual Studio do not include everything 
needed to do Windows development. You also need download a 
version of the Windows SDK. My recommendation is that you just 
uninstall the Express version and install Visual Studio Community 
2013. Then go ahead and remove every trace of DMD from your 
system. Make sure it's not in your system PATH. After that, 
download the latest installer and run it. It will find your VS 
installation automatically and will configure sc.ini 
appropriately. It has worked for me every time I've tried it.

I don't think DMD is able to work with 2015 just yet, because of 
the C Runtime changes. I had trouble with it when VS 2015 was 
first released, so I deleted it and reverted to 2013.