On Thursday, 26 October 2017 at 15:50:07 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
I am preparing a request for Microsoft to allow us to
redistribute some of their binaries. Of course we want to do
that only if deemed necessary (they are not available easily
from their site etc). Any help building an exact list of
requisites would be great. Thanks! -- Andrei
Cool.
From the Installing DMD wiki
(https://wiki.dlang.org/Installing_DMD), it recommends the VS
2015 Community for Windows 7/8 or VS 2017 Community for Windows
10 users. I have Visual Studio Community 2017 installed,
available from one of the links here:
https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/
One little trick in the wiki is that it says that you can uncheck
boxes to reduce the size/time of the download. It might be
helpful to know the minimum required to get D working and the
minimum required to get Visual D working.
It also lists an alternative to install the Microsoft build tools
and an appropriate version of the Windows SDK. LDC also refers to
the Visual C++ build tools, but does not reference the SDK. I
think the VS build tools replace the Visual C++ tools. The VS
build tools look like they have an option to install the SDK and
other stuff too.
