VS2017 C++ Standard Library Modules

Question

VS2017 comes with the possibility to install Standard Library Modules.

In fact in Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.10.25017\ifc\ there are ifc module definition files and std.lib for x86/x64 and Debug/Release. How do we use them? How do you link against them? And what exactly is available in these standard modules?

Answer 1

I got the following code sample working:

import std.core;

int main()
{
    std::cout << "Hello world\n";
    return 0;
}

by passing these extra parameters to the compiler:

/experimental:module /module:search "path-to-standard-library-ifc-modules"

and providing the full path to std.lib in the ifc folder to the linker

properties->linker->additional dependencies

EDIT:

Adding some additional info since this was the only Google result i found regarding this question:

On my computer these files are located in:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.10.25017\ifc

They are installed when the "standard library modules" component is selected during installation of visual studio 2017.