On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 at 13:23:38 UTC, AB wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 at 11:28:16 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 at 10:31:23 UTC, AB wrote:
Are there plans to write a homebrew 64-bit linker for DMD?
There are already ld from mingw and lld from llvm team.
Why aren't they used and distributed in DMD for Windows by
default?
If the tools mentioned above (LD and LLD) are available and
usable on Windows x64 instead of the ones provided in heavily
bloated packages by Microsoft, how come the DMD installer for
Windows doesn't offer them as an alternative (or better yet as
the default)?
It's not just the linker. You need the libs as well (static and
dynamic ones), and not just the WinSDK ones, but the MSVCRT ones
too. Just use the Visual C++ Build Tools if there's not enough
disk space in 2016 *cough*. IMO there's just no way of doing
professional Windows development without the MS toolchain. And no
reason to complain about it just because most Linux distros come
with a fully fledged development ecosystem.
