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.
FWIW, Digger can download and unpack only those parts of Visual
Studio that D needs:
https://github.com/CyberShadow/ae/blob/3365c066c78a82584b8fc5b24edc4da0a4f738a8/sys/d/manager.d#L2089-L2104
Digger is https://github.com/CyberShadow/Digger.
