Changes between Version 13 and Version 14 of Installation
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- 05/28/13 06:05:31 (11 years ago)
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v13 v14 52 52 53 53 A '''free''' alternative are the integrated '''Visual Studio Shell''' distributions, that can be downloaded 54 here: ([http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=40646580-97FA-4698-B65F-620D4B4B1ED7&displaylang=en VS Shell 2008] 55 and [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8e5aa7b6-8436-43f0-b778-00c3bca733d3&displaylang=en VS Shell 2010]). 56 The shells are identical with the Visual Studio IDE, but stripped of any language support. It 54 here: ([http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=40646580-97FA-4698-B65F-620D4B4B1ED7&displaylang=en VS Shell 2008], 55 [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8e5aa7b6-8436-43f0-b778-00c3bca733d3&displaylang=en VS Shell 2010]) and VS Shell 2012 (see below for links). The shells are identical with the Visual Studio IDE, but stripped of any language support. It 57 56 still contains the native debugger that can be used to debug D applications. 58 57 59 58 For debugging applications, you should also install cv2pdb which is now included in the 60 59 Visual D installer. Please make sure, changes to Common7\Packages\Debugger\autoexp.dat do 61 not mix with previous manual installations of [http://svn.dsource.org/projects/cv2pdb cv2pdb]. 60 not mix with previous manual installations of [http://svn.dsource.org/projects/cv2pdb cv2pdb]. Visual D also installs the alternative debug engine mago that does not need cv2pdb. 62 61 63 Unfortunately, the Visual Studio Shell ismissing one file, that is needed for the conversion of the debug information by cv2pdb. This is '''msobj80.dll''' for VS2008 and '''msobj100.dll''' for VS2010 and must be extracted from a standard installation, the Visual C Express edition or the Windows SDK. You might also find it installed by other Microsoft products.62 Unfortunately, the Visual Studio Shells 2008 and 2010 are missing one file, that is needed for the conversion of the debug information by cv2pdb. This is '''msobj80.dll''' for VS2008 and '''msobj100.dll''' for VS2010 and must be extracted from a standard installation, the Visual C Express edition or the Windows SDK. You might also find it installed by other Microsoft products. 64 63 Put this file alongside mspdbcore.dll, normally in <VS-installation-path>\Common7\IDE. 64 65 The Visual Studio Shell 2012 is installed with two packages, the [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30670 isolated shell] followed by the [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30663 integrated package]. Fortunately it 66 has all the files needed for debugging, and the Visual D installer patches the installation to make the x64 debugger work. 65 67 66 68 = Using GDC = 71 73 * GDC binaries: https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads 72 74 73 Add the MinGW64/bin path to your PATH environment variable or the executable path list in the " Visual DDirectories" option page. Then switch the "Compiler" option in the project configuration to "GDC".75 Add the MinGW64/bin path to your PATH environment variable or the executable path list in the "GDC Directories" option page. Then switch the "Compiler" option in the project configuration to "GDC". 74 76 75 77 To create a 64-bit executable, you will have to add a new platform to the project and solution in the configuration manager.