Weird compiler

[mogu via Digitalmars-d]

Today, I'm working on a private GUI tool which must be run at 
linux and windows. It's awful that I compile a little 64bit 
program(or -m32mscoff) in windows must have visual studio which 
has tremendous size installed even though I only need a linker. 
It's weird that a compiler compiles to binary targets needs 
another compiler or tools. Sigh.