On Tuesday, November 15, 2016 16:20:53 AB via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 at 16:00:48 UTC, kink wrote: > > 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. > > I was under the impression that DMD for Windows was (meant to be) > self-sufficient. I must have been misled by how it can build > 32-bit applications just fine without requiring the many > gigabytes of WinSDK and MSVCRT extras.
You _can_ build 32-bit applications with dmd without the Microsoft toolchain just fine. dmc and optlink should be installed with the dmd installer so that code can be compiled to 32-bit OMF and linked. You just need the Microsoft toolchain if you're compiling for 64-bit (which is only COFF) or if you want to compile to 32-bit COFF. It's unnecessary if you simply want to compile and run 32-bit programs and are willing to use OMF for the linker format. If dmd's installer is actually requiring that you install Visual Studio to compile 32-bit programs, then that's a problem. It didn't do that before, and it shouldn't need to now. - Jonathan M Davis
