On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 03:21:56 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at 23:11:30 UTC, Jolly James wrote:
Come one, let's be ones: If DMD has no x64 linker, VS
integration is not a bit optional.
Unlike some other operating systems, 64-bit Windows versions
can run 32-bit software just fine. If you require targeting
Win64 (or the Microsoft C runtime), that is specific to your
use case.
That's true. But when D's GC does not trigger early enough, my
program runs out of memory (due to the 2 GB limit of 32 bit
process), x64 solves this more or less. As a side note: I am
talking about allocating huge arrays.
And, again, Visual Studio is not required if you want to target
Win64 - only the necessary toolchain components (linker and C
runtime), which you can also obtain from an SDK.
So you are telling me "not working at all" is not worth
releasing a fix? xD
Again, everything should be already working. We are talking
about a convenience feature that automatically sets up the D
compiler's configuration file, nothing more. That's all there
is to the "integration". You can trivially do the same thing by
hand, or set up your environment accordingly - all in a
fraction of the time it took you to write these pointless
complaints on this forum.
I admit, you are right in some points. Nevertheless, have you
ever tried letting a novice configuring this stuff? The 'sc.ini'
is neither easy to read nor logic. In my particular case I am
overchallenged by this task.
