Glad to announce D 2.078.0.

This release comes with runtime detection of Visual Studio installation paths, an integral promotion transition for unary operations on byte and short sized integers, more -betterC features, and a couple of language and library tweaks.

Thanks to everyone involved in this 👏 https://dlang.org/contributors.html.

http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.078.0/ http://dlang.org/changelog/2.078.0.html

- -Martin

On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 17:43:36 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce D 2.078.0.
>
> This release comes with runtime detection of Visual Studio installation paths, an integral promotion transition for unary operations on byte and short sized integers, more -betterC features, and a couple of language and library tweaks.
>
> Thanks to everyone involved in this 👏 https://dlang.org/contributors.html.
>
> http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.078.0/ http://dlang.org/changelog/2.078.0.html
>
> - -Martin

thanks buddies.

On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 17:43:36 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce D 2.078.0.
>
> This release comes with runtime detection of Visual Studio installation paths, an integral promotion transition for unary operations on byte and short sized integers, more -betterC features, and a couple of language and library tweaks.
>
> Thanks to everyone involved in this 👏 https://dlang.org/contributors.html.
>
> http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.078.0/ http://dlang.org/changelog/2.078.0.html
>
> - -Martin

Thanks a lot Martin!!
BTW we have per-release contributor listings too:
https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/2048

On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 06:43:36PM +0100, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
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> Glad to announce D 2.078.0.

Awesome!


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> https://dlang.org/contributors.html.
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Not sure where's the best place to report this, but this list contains
some duplicates. One that I found is "Mihails Strasuns" == "Михаил
Страшун". Does the contributor script have some mechanism for specifying
equivalence classes for the various online identities of contributors?


T

-- 
In theory, software is implemented according to the design that has been carefully worked out beforehand. In practice, design documents are written after the fact to describe the sorry mess that has gone on before.

On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 19:40:17 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 06:43:36PM +0100, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
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>> Hash: SHA512
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>> Glad to announce D 2.078.0.
>
> Awesome!
>
>
> [...]
>> https://dlang.org/contributors.html.
> [...]
>
> Not sure where's the best place to report this, but this list contains
> some duplicates. One that I found is "Mihails Strasuns" == "Михаил
> Страшун". Does the contributor script have some mechanism for specifying
> equivalence classes for the various online identities of contributors?
>
>
> T

Yes, it's a git mailmap: https://github.com/dlang/tools/blob/master/.mailmap
See also: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/mailmap.txt
Improvements are welcome :)

On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 17:43:36 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce D 2.078.0.
>
> This release comes with runtime detection of Visual Studio installation paths, an integral promotion transition for unary operations on byte and short sized integers, more -betterC features, and a couple of language and library tweaks.
>
> Thanks to everyone involved in this 👏 https://dlang.org/contributors.html.
>
> http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.078.0/ http://dlang.org/changelog/2.078.0.html
>
> - -Martin

Awesome! I'll post the blog announcement and hit social media in ~12 hours.

On 1/3/2018 9:43 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce D 2.078.0.

Thank you, Martin!

On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 17:43:36 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce D 2.078.0.
>
> This release comes with runtime detection of Visual Studio installation paths

I've got a problem with linking phobos64.lib now.
I run "Visual C++ 2015 x64 Native Build Tools Command Prompt", i.e. cmd.exe with environment set up.
With dmd 2.077.0 I run "dmd app.d -m64 -ofapp.exe" and it all goes well, compiles and links successfully.

With dmd 2.078.0 I run "dmd app.d -m64 -ofapp.exe" and get:

phobos64.lib(stacktrace_196a_3e5.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol snprintf referenced in function _D4core3sys7windows10stacktrace10StackTrace13resolveNoSyncFAxmZAAa
phobos64.lib(parseoptions_bee_21b.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol snprintf
phobos64.lib(demangle_ab0_79b.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol snprintf
phobos64.lib(parseoptions_bee_21b.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol sscanf referenced in function _D4core8internal12parseoptions5parseFNbNiAxaKANgaKfQkZb
app.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals
Error: linker exited with status 1120

On 04.01.2018 07:25, thedeemon wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 17:43:36 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> Glad to announce D 2.078.0.
>>
>> This release comes with runtime detection of Visual Studio installation paths
> 
> I've got a problem with linking phobos64.lib now.
> I run "Visual C++ 2015 x64 Native Build Tools Command Prompt", i.e. cmd.exe with environment set up.
> With dmd 2.077.0 I run "dmd app.d -m64 -ofapp.exe" and it all goes well, compiles and links successfully.
> 
> With dmd 2.078.0 I run "dmd app.d -m64 -ofapp.exe" and get:
> 
> phobos64.lib(stacktrace_196a_3e5.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol snprintf referenced in function _D4core3sys7windows10stacktrace10StackTrace13resolveNoSyncFAxmZAAa
> phobos64.lib(parseoptions_bee_21b.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol snprintf
> phobos64.lib(demangle_ab0_79b.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol snprintf
> phobos64.lib(parseoptions_bee_21b.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol sscanf referenced in function _D4core8internal12parseoptions5parseFNbNiAxaKANgaKfQkZb
> app.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals
> Error: linker exited with status 1120

What's missing is probably legacy_stdio_definition.lib that has to be added to the linker command line for VS2015 or later. You can verify this by checking how dmd invokes the linker by adding -v to the dmd command line.

I suspect this happens due to the new VS detection in dmd that hasn't been followed up by an appropriate installer update (unfortunately it didn't make it into this release). Please try replacing the Environment64 section in sc.ini with just this:

[Environment64]
LIB=%@P%\..\lib64
DFLAGS=%DFLAGS% -L/OPT:NOICF

On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 17:43:36 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce D 2.078.0.
>
> This release comes with runtime detection of Visual Studio installation paths, an integral promotion transition for unary operations on byte and short sized integers, more -betterC features, and a couple of language and library tweaks.
>
> Thanks to everyone involved in this 👏 https://dlang.org/contributors.html.
>
> http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.078.0/ http://dlang.org/changelog/2.078.0.html
>
> - -Martin

Thank you very much!