Chocolatey Packages for DMD, LDC, and GDC

[Manuel Maier]

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 17:25:35 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2017-11-28 10:09, Atila Neves wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the work. And ugh about the installer requiring 
>> user intervention, I was literally just about to write a 
>> script to install dmd on a Windows dev box, remembered I saw 
>> something about chocolatey in the NG, and came here to read. 
>> Not happy with the current state of affairs...
>
> You can install DMD on Windows using DVM [1].
>
> [1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dvm

I didn't know about that tool yet, but I like the idea! However, 
when I played around with it just now, I ran into the "Cannot 
find dmd-2.0.x.x.bat file" issue [1]. And yes, I misread the 
installation instructions (thought it said "run <dvm> install 
dmd"). Then, once dvm was properly installed, I didn't get that 
message anymore. I tried installing dmd 2.076.0 and it apparently 
succeeded in that, but `dvm use 2.076.0` didn't appear to do 
anything... So all in all the application seems quite rough 
around the edges and doensn't _feel_ very reliable.

Another thing I don't think it does is patching the sc.ini with 
Visual Studio environment variables, like the dmd installer does.

[1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dvm/issues/36