On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 08:38:32 UTC, AB wrote:
Installing D 2.072.0 on Windows 7 64-bit. After installation is
complete I get the following two error (warning?) messages,
screenshots here:
http://imgur.com/a/5fydB
For your convenience they read as follows:
"Could not detect Visual Studio (2008-2015 are supported). No
64-bit support."
"Could not detect Windows SDK (6.0A-10.0 are supported). No
64-bit support."
So the above means that the DMD compiler will not be able to
generate 64-bit executables on my system, because a third-party
piece of software is missing? This is ridiculous, what does
Visual Studio have to do with DMD and its capability to
generate 64-bit code?
"You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the
banana and the entire jungle."
It used to be possible to get just the command-line tools by
installing the much smaller Windows SDK:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/hvdyyutbgehlefluv...@forum.dlang.org
If that's not the case anymore, I suggest you take it up with
Microsoft.
