Fifth and hopefully final version. Not much changed. I put this together so it represented the final iteration of my changes that will be going into pull requests.

I stopped it from downloading a modified dmd2beta.zip (because of the licensing issue I'd forgotten about) and just download the original and move phobos64.lib and gcstub64.obj to lib64 in the installer.  DMD now supports (as of 2.064 beta 2) LINKCMD in Environment64 so I no longer need dmd changes.

http://gnuk.net/dmd-2.064-beta-new-sc.ini-5.exe

People using Visual Studio Express 2010 and Windows SDK 7.0A: Sorry, couldn't think of a good solution for that combo.

Thanks to everyone who helped me test.

Relevant pull requests:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2684
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1652
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/pull/22 (putting some finishing touches on this in a moment then calling it good)

On 20.10.2013 05:51, Brad Anderson wrote:
> Fifth and hopefully final version. Not much changed. I put this together
> so it represented the final iteration of my changes that will be going
> into pull requests.
>
> I stopped it from downloading a modified dmd2beta.zip (because of the
> licensing issue I'd forgotten about) and just download the original and
> move phobos64.lib and gcstub64.obj to lib64 in the installer.  DMD now
> supports (as of 2.064 beta 2) LINKCMD in Environment64 so I no longer
> need dmd changes.
>
> http://gnuk.net/dmd-2.064-beta-new-sc.ini-5.exe
>
> People using Visual Studio Express 2010 and Windows SDK 7.0A: Sorry,
> couldn't think of a good solution for that combo.
>
> Thanks to everyone who helped me test.
>
> Relevant pull requests:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2684
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1652
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/pull/22 (putting
> some finishing touches on this in a moment then calling it good)


I finally got around to making a version of Visual D that should work for x64 out of the box with both the zip distribution and the new D windows installer. Unfortunately it has to override the settings made by the installer to sc.ini.

I have prepared a release candidate here:

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald/releases

3 tiny nitpicks regarding the D installer:
- it does not remember the directory of a previous installation
- it is listed in the "Program and Features" as a mere "D" without any further info. That could be a bit more verbose.
- it would be nice if it could also provide a download of the 64-bit curl library

The link to the Visual D installer will probably get invalid pretty soon, so maybe we should add some "LATEST" file somewhere in the repository to grab the link to the latest release?

On Monday, 28 October 2013 at 19:14:17 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>
> On 20.10.2013 05:51, Brad Anderson wrote:
>> Fifth and hopefully final version. Not much changed. I put this together
>> so it represented the final iteration of my changes that will be going
>> into pull requests.
>>
>> I stopped it from downloading a modified dmd2beta.zip (because of the
>> licensing issue I'd forgotten about) and just download the original and
>> move phobos64.lib and gcstub64.obj to lib64 in the installer.  DMD now
>> supports (as of 2.064 beta 2) LINKCMD in Environment64 so I no longer
>> need dmd changes.
>>
>> http://gnuk.net/dmd-2.064-beta-new-sc.ini-5.exe
>>
>> People using Visual Studio Express 2010 and Windows SDK 7.0A: Sorry,
>> couldn't think of a good solution for that combo.
>>
>> Thanks to everyone who helped me test.
>>
>> Relevant pull requests:
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2684
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1652
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/pull/22 (putting
>> some finishing touches on this in a moment then calling it good)
>
>
> I finally got around to making a version of Visual D that should work for x64 out of the box with both the zip distribution and the new D windows installer. Unfortunately it has to override the settings made by the installer to sc.ini.
>

As in, make change to sc.ini itself?  If so, what kind of changes?

> I have prepared a release candidate here:
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald/releases
>

I'll try it out when I get a free moment.

> 3 tiny nitpicks regarding the D installer:
> - it does not remember the directory of a previous installation

Good idea. This is easy enough to do.

> - it is listed in the "Program and Features" as a mere "D" without any further info. That could be a bit more verbose.

The creation of the installer predates my interest in D so I never know whether things like that were intentional or not.  "DMD - Digital Mars D Language Compiler" maybe?

> - it would be nice if it could also provide a download of the 64-bit curl library
>

Another thing I'm trying to find some free time to do.  The 32-bit version could use some updating to a more recent version of curl as well. If someone else with more free time wants to do this all I did to make it originally was run implib over a curl dll to make the OMF import library and put it in a zip file with a directory structure that matches dmd's zip so that when the installer unzips it everything just falls into place. For 64-bit I'd just add the 64-bit curl libraries to the new fangled lib64.

> The link to the Visual D installer will probably get invalid pretty soon, so maybe we should add some "LATEST" file somewhere in the repository to grab the link to the latest release?

Yeah, I wasn't sure how to handle that situation. A web server redirect would be the easiest to do normally but D's webserver situation is difficult to work with since you have to ask someone to make the changes and nobody but Walter, Andrei, and Jan really know what the webserver setup is like.

We could also just update the installer periodically. There is no reason it needs to be tied to DMD's release cycle.

On 29.10.2013 21:36, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Monday, 28 October 2013 at 19:14:17 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>
>> I finally got around to making a version of Visual D that should work
>> for x64 out of the box with both the zip distribution and the new D
>> windows installer. Unfortunately it has to override the settings made
>> by the installer to sc.ini.
>>
>
> As in, make change to sc.ini itself?  If so, what kind of changes?
>

No. Visual D now calls the linker by itself, but extracts settings from sc.ini. To allow linking to the C runtime library of the current VS, it has to provide the respective path. You can also override the linker executable to avoid troubles with the mspdb*.dll dependencies. In addition, invoking the 32-bit linker allows monitoring file accesses to generate library dependencies.

>> I have prepared a release candidate here:
>>
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald/releases
>>
>
> I'll try it out when I get a free moment.
>
>> 3 tiny nitpicks regarding the D installer:
>> - it does not remember the directory of a previous installation
>
> Good idea. This is easy enough to do.
>
>> - it is listed in the "Program and Features" as a mere "D" without any
>> further info. That could be a bit more verbose.
>
> The creation of the installer predates my interest in D so I never know
> whether things like that were intentional or not. "DMD - Digital Mars D
> Language Compiler" maybe?
>

That sounds ok for the "DisplayName". Other entries to fill could be "DisplayIcon", "DisplayVersion", "Publisher" and "Comments".

>> - it would be nice if it could also provide a download of the 64-bit
>> curl library
>>
>
> Another thing I'm trying to find some free time to do.  The 32-bit
> version could use some updating to a more recent version of curl as
> well. If someone else with more free time wants to do this all I did to
> make it originally was run implib over a curl dll to make the OMF import
> library and put it in a zip file with a directory structure that matches
> dmd's zip so that when the installer unzips it everything just falls
> into place. For 64-bit I'd just add the 64-bit curl libraries to the new
> fangled lib64.

I have a 32-bit version of the curl library built from the same source as the 64-bit version (i.e. 7.28.1). This is a single DLL without all the additional DLL dependencies.

>
>> The link to the Visual D installer will probably get invalid pretty
>> soon, so maybe we should add some "LATEST" file somewhere in the
>> repository to grab the link to the latest release?
>
> Yeah, I wasn't sure how to handle that situation. A web server redirect
> would be the easiest to do normally but D's webserver situation is
> difficult to work with since you have to ask someone to make the changes
> and nobody but Walter, Andrei, and Jan really know what the webserver
> setup is like.

The link on the download page needs updating anyway, so uploading a link file should not make it any more problematic.

>
> We could also just update the installer periodically. There is no reason
> it needs to be tied to DMD's release cycle.

I agree, shouldn't be a big deal, but reducing the number of things to update for a release would be nice.