On Sunday, 17 May 2020 at 22:30:22 UTC, a beginner wrote:
I have searched online for some info, indeed I found something,
but not being familiar with the tools it hasn't been terribly
useful. Only it confirms that windows support is somewhat
disappointing in general, xp or not.
I've been using D on Windows since I first found it in 2003. From
my perspective, Windows support is fairly solid.
It seems to me my best chance is to stay with dmd 2.085.1, try
fix the cache problem in dub 1.11 myself (or give up on that
and build "by hand"), probably wrestle some linking problems
(pretty sure I wouldn't succeed with that) and be happy until I
can upgrade. After all, these days programming is just a hobby
for me. But honestly, all this is quite annoying for a
beginner. In my experience, trouble getting the tools to work
is often the biggest obstacle in learning a new language (well,
unless it's something really weird...), which in many cases
means giving up after some cursing.
Unfortunately, the minimum Windows version "officially" supported
is Windows 7:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/ktfgps$2ghh$1...@digitalmars.com
With no testing on XP, you are bound to run into difficulties
trying to use the tools there. So yeah, your best bet is using a
compiler version that works and see if building dub from source
makes a difference. If you can't get dub to work, then you'll
want to look into using rdmd, which has shipped with dmd for
years now, or perhaps makefiles.
