On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 09:33:48 UTC, AB wrote:
On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 09:06:18 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
DMD can generate 64-bit object files just fine, you only need
to link them, and DMD can invoke ms linker for you, that's all.
It is unreasonable to pull in the many GBs of Visual Studio as
a dependency only to use its 64-bit linker.
It used to be a pain to install the microsoft toolchain without
install VS.
Now there is
http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools,
perhaps we should be encouraging using that instead?
