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.
No, it isn't unreasonable. The alternative is for Walter to write
a new linker that is compatible with the Microsoft ecosystem. He
instead took the expedient, and IMO correct, course of working
with the system linker. If you do C or C++ development with Clang
on Windows these days, it's best to have the MS tools installed.
This isn't any different.
