On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 at 14:57:17 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
Regardless, my point is more about the importance of a seamless installation on Windows than necessarily about what is required or not.
This isn't unique to D. I just tried to install the Clang Windows binary and I got a message about MSVC integration failing. I have Visual Express 2008,
The express versions of Visual Studio do not include everything needed to do Windows development. You also need download a version of the Windows SDK. My recommendation is that you just uninstall the Express version and install Visual Studio Community 2013. Then go ahead and remove every trace of DMD from your system. Make sure it's not in your system PATH. After that, download the latest installer and run it. It will find your VS installation automatically and will configure sc.ini appropriately. It has worked for me every time I've tried it.
I don't think DMD is able to work with 2015 just yet, because of the C Runtime changes. I had trouble with it when VS 2015 was first released, so I deleted it and reverted to 2013.
