https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20390
Issue ID: 20390
Summary: Add llvm-dlltool.exe to dmd windows release?
Product: D
Version: D2
Hardware: All
OS: Windows
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P1
Component: tools
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
While implib has the purpose to create OMF import libraries for DLLs,
llvm-dlltool.exe has the purpose to create COFF (x86 and x86_64) import
libraries for DLLs.
Could you consider to either add this executable to the DMD windows release or
to make it easily downloadable from the "Other download" section on
https://dlang.org/download.html?
While searching the tool on web, it is quite hard to find it. At the end I
found it in this tar archive
https://msys2.duckdns.org/package/mingw-w64-x86_64-llvm?repo=mingw64 which is
not that easy to extract on windows.
The executable has a size of 20 MB and 5 MB within a zip file. Maybe we just
zip it and provide the link on "Other download" to not increase the size of DMD
too much?
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