On Friday, 27 October 2017 at 02:20:54 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Well, if it's possible to use an SDK instead of VS, then
ideally, we'd support with the installer that rather than
requiring that VS be there, but obviously, someone will have to
do the work to improve the installer.
Personally, I'm really not a Windows dev, though I've had to
use Visual Studio for work often enough, so my understanding of
what other SDKs might exist from Microsoft is quite poor. I've
only ever used Windows for development when I've had to.
- Jonathan M Davis
A while back I played with the idea of a VS replacement for D and
I made some progress using this:
http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/
I managed to swap out the VS linker and use the included linker
to build a 64-bit D binary, but that was as far as I got at the
time.
It's not open source, but the terms of use are pretty permissive.
Maybe it's worth taking another look.
