On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 18:42:07 UTC, Bo wrote:
There is a issue with Windows. The whole attacking the messenger, the whole idiotic argumentation's that Windows is dying, it is all pure useless trolling the people who ask a simple questions: How to solve the D 64bit issue so that like on the Linux or OSx platform, the users can have the SAME level of consistency.
Windows 32 bit is the special one - it is the ONLY platform where D works out of the box without additional downloads. That's one reason why I advocate it for just playing around - it just works.
On ALL other platforms for dmd: Win64, Linux 32/64, Mac, freebsd, you require additional downloads from the OS vendor to build your program.
The only difference is size of the download from the OS vendor, and odds that it was already installed by something else. But it is the same idea - you use the OS vendor's linker and system libs to facilitate interoperability with other language code.
