In preparation for an upcoming blog series, and partly as a
reaction to the "Windows is a second-class citizen" criticisms
that have been cropping up lately, I've put together a primer on
getting set up to use C and D together on Windows. It includes
some background on why we need to install the MS toolchain to
produce 64-bit binaries.
The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2017/10/25/dmd-windows-and-c/
Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/78olka/dmd_windows_and_c_getting_set_up_to_use_d_and_c/