Commercial video processing app in D (experience report)

[Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 12:42:05 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
>
> Compiler
> Compiler used is DMD 2.070, 32-bit target. Video Enhancer 
> supports 200+ plugins from VirtualDub and they happen to be 
> 32-bit, so our app has to be 32-bit too. Speed of code 
> generated by DMD is more than enough, even debug builds were 
> fast enough. The default linker is used (not the MS one), and I 
> was worried there might be some troubles with antivirus false 
> positives (that happened before when using optlink) but no, 
> everything went smooth and no problems with optlink arose 
> whatsoever.
>

Note that starting with the newest LDC releases you can have 
Win32 builds.

The parameters to pass to the linker to avoid a VS runtime 
dependency are:

     link.exe [...stuff...] libcmt.lib /nodefaultlib:msvcrt.lib 
/nodefaultlib:vcruntime.lib

Users report such builds working on XP, Vista and later of course.
The advantages are faster binaries (typically 2x faster) and 
importantly lack of backend regressions.