On Wednesday, 16 November 2016 at 17:34:58 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Why is it a wart? The MS toolchain is the system development
environment for Windows. On Mac OS X, it's Xcode, which is a 1+
GB download before you can do any development with clang or dmd
or anything that depends on it. On Linux distros, if it the GCC
packages aren't already installed, they need to be pulled down.
I mean, I get that the MS tools might not be perceived by some
as the 'system' tools, but that is what they are. It's no
different than the other systems DMD is distributed on.
+1000. I hope this ridiculous thread comes to an end (nope, ELLCC
is not a solution).
So yes, the DMD installer is right in warning that 64-bit code
cannot be linked if VS isn't detected. It should detect the VC++
Build Tools though =>
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16688. 32-bit MS COFF
cannot be linked either, but let's not confuse new users by a too
detailed msgbox.
