why no ld.exe in 2.066.1 Windows builds?

[Johannes Pfau via D.gnu]

Am Mon, 13 Apr 2015 07:38:04 +0000
schrieb "Ivan Kazmenko" <gassa at mail.ru>:

> Hi,
> 
> On http://gdcproject.org/downloads page, there's a new release 
> with 2.066.1 DMD frontend, build date 2015-04-05.
> 
> However, in i686-w64-mingw32 and x86_64-w64-mingw32 packages, 
> there is no linker (ld.exe). Compiling a hello world program with 
> a tdm-gcc[1] linker in the path results in
> ...
> ...\ld.exe: this linker was not configured to use sysroots.
> 
> So, why is the linker binary not in the package anymore, and 
> which linker should I use in its absence?  The ones I have (some 
> tdm-gcc, mingw-builds, mingw versions) fail with various "not for 
> sysroots" or "symbol not found" errors.
> 
> Ivan Kazmenko.

Seems like something went wrong when updating the build scripts. I'll
have a look later today and upload updated releases.

BTW: Did you use older windows releases? As windows support is mostly
untested I was always wondering if anybody uses windows releases at
all ;-)