Note from a donor

jmh530 john.michael.hall at gmail.com
Fri Oct 27 12:19:59 UTC 2017


On Friday, 27 October 2017 at 11:47:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 10/27/17 3:46 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> I'm not saying Windows is special. I tried to use DMD and 
>> Visual Studio together, it didn't work that well. I did not 
>> use the DMD installation, I already had DMD installed (using 
>> DVM). I did not know the exact paths/environment variables to 
>> use for DMD to find the Visual Studio tool chain. I also 
>> recall finding it very difficult to find the download for the 
>> SDK, it was not included in the Visual Studio installation I 
>> used.
>
> This kind of stuff would need to be carefully written down with 
> an eye for improving the experience. Any volunteers? Please 
> help, thanks! -- Andrei

It's in the install wiki
https://wiki.dlang.org/Installing_DMD
the problem (that I mentioned above) is that you have to know 
where to go to find it. It needs more prominence on the dlang 
site.


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