Beta D 2.068.0-b2

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 29.07.2015 09:10, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 01:55:35 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote:
>> There is probably an obvious reason this is not possible but I could
>> not see it when reading through the MS licensing information. It seems
>> to me the linker bin could be redistributed. Why is it (and the other
>> required lib/dll files) not bundled with the Windows installer to make
>> it one-stop-shopping?
>>
>> Seems like this is what is done with Win32.
>
> You're not allowed to redistribute the VS binaries, only the libc dlls.
> On Win32 we use our own libc (dmc) and linker (optlink).
> We could improve our installer so it can optionally start the VS
> compiler installation.

Digger [1] is able to download the installers, but just extract the 
packages needed to link DMD built executables for win64. I'm not sure 
whether this is in compliance with the SDK license (you never see it or 
have to agree to it).

[1] https://github.com/CyberShadow/Digger