• Carl Sturtivant (7/7) Oct 16 2018 I want to get a student (who is running Windows 10 64-bit on
• Carl Sturtivant (9/16) Oct 16 2018 Well, I got this installer, "Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017",

Carl Sturtivant <sturtivant gmail.com> writes:

I want to get a student (who is running Windows 10 64-bit on 
their laptop) up and running with ldc2 using lld. And I'd like to 
avoid installing anything not absolutely necessary.

Can you point me to some up-to-date docs for ldc2 that explain 
the current situation on Windows? Or tell me a minimum that needs 
to be installed to support writing command-line programs that are 
not Windows applications as such.

Carl Sturtivant <sturtivant gmail.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 16 October 2018 at 14:09:50 UTC, Carl Sturtivant 
wrote:
 I want to get a student (who is running Windows 10 64-bit on 
 their laptop) up and running with ldc2 using lld. And I'd like 
 to avoid installing anything not absolutely necessary.

 Can you point me to some up-to-date docs for ldc2 that explain 
 the current situation on Windows? Or tell me a minimum that 
 needs to be installed to support writing command-line programs 
 that are not Windows applications as such.

Well, I got this installer, "Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017", 
ran it, clicking only the Build Tools button, and unchecking 
boxes until only the Windows 10 SDK box was checked and made an 
installation.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2017

ldc2 successfully linked hello_world.d once this was installed, 
even without -link-internally .