On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 12:42:05 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
Compiler
Compiler used is DMD 2.070, 32-bit target. Video Enhancer
supports 200+ plugins from VirtualDub and they happen to be
32-bit, so our app has to be 32-bit too. Speed of code
generated by DMD is more than enough, even debug builds were
fast enough. The default linker is used (not the MS one), and I
was worried there might be some troubles with antivirus false
positives (that happened before when using optlink) but no,
everything went smooth and no problems with optlink arose
whatsoever.
Note that starting with the newest LDC releases you can have
Win32 builds.
The parameters to pass to the linker to avoid a VS runtime
dependency are:
link.exe [...stuff...] libcmt.lib /nodefaultlib:msvcrt.lib
/nodefaultlib:vcruntime.lib
Users report such builds working on XP, Vista and later of course.
The advantages are faster binaries (typically 2x faster) and
importantly lack of backend regressions.
