Chocolatey Packages for DMD, LDC, and GDC

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Wed Nov 29 16:04:04 UTC 2017


On 2017-11-28 20:04, Manuel Maier wrote:

> 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.

Please try using cmd instead of PowerShell. BTW, setting a default 
compiler in cmd using "dmd use <version> -d" will also set it as default 
for PowerShell. But the standard "use" command doesn't seem to work.

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

No, it basically only extracts the downloaded archive.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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