• via Digitalmars-d-bugs (20/20) Nov 14 2016 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16688

via Digitalmars-d-bugs <digitalmars-d-bugs puremagic.com> writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16688

          Issue ID: 16688
           Summary: DMD needs to work with the MSC build tools
                    distribution
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: x86_64
                OS: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P1
         Component: installer
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: turkeyman gmail.com

MS have a new distribution of their toolchain which is independent of VS.

http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools

The DMD installer needs to detect and auto-configure for these paths.

This allows us to promote a windows build solution that doesn't require
installation of (huge) visual studio.

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