On Friday, 24 October 2014 at 13:04:48 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:42:47 +0000
Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Friday, 24 October 2014 at 02:44:48 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
> I always just use the zip which works fine out of the box
> without even needing to be installed.
We're missing an installation guide on a prominent place on
the front page.
Such things really scare away a lot of people.
if we scaring away people who can't download and run one .exe,
this
can't be bad thing. there is clear link do download insteller on
dlang.org. when i was in need to write simple program on win8
box, i
downloaded that .exe, started it, pressed some "next" and
"finish"
buttons and... voila, dmd compiler is here and working. if this
is way
too hard for someone, then i doubt that he should write
programs at all.
There are other more subtle problems that someone can run into.
One problem I've encountered on Windows is that having a '+' in
your path trips up Optlink (Notepad++ triggered this issue for
me). Linking starts failing for no apparent reason, and it is
extremely frustrating until you figure out what's wrong (and
still maddening afterword to think that such a stupid bug
exists). Let's try to help debug the problem rather than making
presumptions about OPs technical knowledge.
