On Monday, 20 April 2015 at 04:05:21 UTC, Jeremiah DeHaan wrote:
Hey all,
While browsing the other day I stumbled across a linker called
polink (part of the Pelles C suite). After only a few tries I
got a working 64bit Hello World executable to be produced using
it. The terms of service is incredibly permissive, and it looks
like we can use it how ever we want (though this would need
confirmation). I'm wondering if this could be a possible
replacement for needing to install Visual Studio along side the
D compiler.
Thoughts?
There are three aspects of Visual Studio used for D's Win64
support: the Microsoft C compiler to compile a few C files in
COFF64 format, the Microsoft COFF64 linker, and the Microsoft C
library in COFF64 format. Replacing only one will not get you
very far.
