On Monday, 18 April 2022 at 09:04:24 UTC, Dennis wrote:
What went wrong when you used the DMD installer? Installing Visual Studio should not be necessary, since DMD ships with the lld linker and MinGW Windows import libraries. If it doesn't work out of the box, it should be fixed.
"Download and install Visual Studio 2019" is preselected in the installer, so you have to know to pick "Install VC2010 redistributables to use it with the MinGW Platform libraries" to opt out. I guess it's not *necessary* but it certainly encourages new users to install it.
(I'd subjectively argue the VC2010/MinGW option should be the default, the whole of VS2019 is a very hefty download and not my IDE of choice.)
