LDC 1.0.0 has been released!

[Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 10:45:39 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 07:25:49 UTC, tester wrote:
>> On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 07:00:56 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> It is a great pleasure to announce that version 1.0.0 of LDC, 
>>> the LLVM-based D compiler, is now available for download!
>>>
>>> The release is based on the 2.070.2 frontend and standard 
>>> library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.8. We provide binaries for 
>>> Linux, OX X, Win32 & Win64, Linux/ARM (armv7hf). :-)
>>>
>>> As usual, you can find links to the changelog and the binary 
>>> packages over at digitalmars.D.ldc:
>>> http://forum.dlang.org/post/lwsnqbravjqbnnryvjkx@forum.dlang.org
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Kai
>>
>>
>> very nice!
>> how about a howto for windows/VS users?
>
> Hi,
>
> Here is what I've learned:
>
> - use VS 2015 preferably,
> - since a while the stock LDC package work as is, nothing to 
> configure,
> - use PATH and --compiler=ldc2 or 
> --compiler=path/to/compiler.exe to tell dub where LDC is 
> (separate packages for 32-bit and 64-bit),
> - to avoid a dependency on the VS 2015 runtime, add the 
> following linker flags:
>
> "lflags-windows-ldc": [
>         "libcmt.lib",
>         "/nodefaultlib:msvcrt.lib",
>         "/nodefaultlib:vcruntime.lib"
>     ],
>
> - executables made with LDC are not supported on XP and Vista, 
> but seem to work regardless :)

Thanks!

See https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc-scripts/pull/1

Regards,
Kai