Check C++ development tools aswell as a Windows SDK already installed?

[Zanderama]

Hi,

I'm new to D and Visual Studio, but wanted to try D.

It would be good if the installer could check that necessary components are installed better.

I had more trouble getting this to work than I expected on a pretty new PC. Part of that is missing the instructions to "install C++ development tools aswell as a Windows SDK". Initially I missed this bit, so no wonder didn't work. Then I tried to install the "individual components" for this - but couldn't find exact matches, so still didn't work. I then installed the "Workloads" called "Desktop Development with C++" and "WinUI application development" and seem to now have a simple example compiling ok.

If the installer spotted this earlier would have helped a lot. It could also be good to have some sort of "wizard/verify-installation" option as part of the "Extensions/Visual D" menu.

Thanks

[TurkeyMan]

It's odd that you didn't already have that stuff installed. That's normally default VS stuff... do you have any theory why the compilers and Windows SDK weren't installed together with VS? Did you manually de-select the compilers and SDK while intalling, or has MS changed the installer to default to not installing the normal build tools? Pretty weird, hard to imagine what VS is for if there's no build tools installed!

[Zanderama]

Hi, I don't think I deselected anything on first installing Visual Studio. Is it intended for .NET by default rather than C/C++? It had to download a few GB for C++ and WinGui stuff.

[rainers]

I think the default is not to install the C++ environment.

It's a good suggestion to verify the existence of Visual Studio and the VC toolchain, I guess I could reuse what I added to the DMD installer just recently.