• Gary Willoughby (4/4) Oct 21 2015 How to install DMD 64bit on Windows? Is it just a case of
• Adam D. Ruppe (2/2) Oct 21 2015 Use the .exe installer and it will offer to download and install
• Brad Anderson (7/9) Oct 21 2015 I don't know if that feature has made it into a release yet. I
• ric maicle (5/7) Oct 24 2015 Sorry to ask this but could anyone please explain why Visual Studio is
• qsdfghjk (4/14) Oct 24 2015 it's required for the standard C library (Digital Mars's one is

Gary Willoughby <dev nomad.so> writes:

How to install DMD 64bit on Windows? Is it just a case of 
downloading from here and it just works?

http://dlang.org/download.html

Or do I need Visual Studio installed?

Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

Use the .exe installer and it will offer to download and install 
visual studio for you as part for its process.

Brad Anderson <eco gnuk.net> writes:

On Wednesday, 21 October 2015 at 18:50:08 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
 Use the .exe installer and it will offer to download and 
 install visual studio for you as part for its process.

I don't know if that feature has made it into a release yet. I 
don't think Vc2015 is supported yet either in a released version 
of DMD. I could be mistaken on both of these.

If you want to play it say just install VS2013 Community Edition 
then install DMD and everything should just work.

ric maicle <rmaicle gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 22 October, 2015 02:50 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
 Use the .exe installer and it will offer to download and install visual
 studio for you as part for its process.

Sorry to ask this but could anyone please explain why Visual Studio is
required by DMD 64-bit? (I have been away far too long than I should
have)

Thanks

qsdfghjk <qsdfghjk niwhere.hj> writes:

On Saturday, 24 October 2015 at 16:06:24 UTC, ric maicle wrote:
 On Thursday, 22 October, 2015 02:50 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
 Use the .exe installer and it will offer to download and 
 install visual
 studio for you as part for its process.

 Sorry to ask this but could anyone please explain why Visual 
 Studio is
 required by DMD 64-bit? (I have been away far too long than I 
 should
 have)

 Thanks

it's required for the standard C library (Digital Mars's one is 
32 bit only) and to link COFF objects (Digital Mars linker is 
only for OMF objects, produced by default only by DMD32).