LDC now supports Windows MSVC x86/x64 as first class targets

[kinke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Hey all,

I'm proud to announce that MSVC is fully supported now for LDC 
trunk. Rainer Schuetze has implemented MSVC-compatible exception 
handling (available since brand-new LLVM 3.8) for LDC, so that we 
have fully working exception chaining now on Win64. Along the 
way, he also added 32-bit MSVC support and a TLS alignment bugfix 
for Windows < 8.1 (a Windows bug/wontfix!). It requires a 
bleeding edge LLVM though, as Rainer's work has uncovered a few 
LLVM bugs which didn't make it into 3.8 final.
So a round of applause for Rainer and the LLVM devs, excellent 
job, thank you very much! Full PDB support for LLVM is also 
underway...

CI testing with AppVeyor has been improved, so that the full test 
suite is run for both x86 and x64 MSVC targets. All tests pass 
except for 3 rather negligible issues (see 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/1354#issuecomment-198572582 for details).

The automatically updated GitHub release 
(http://wiki.dlang.org/Latest_LDC_binaries_for_Windows) now also 
includes a downloadable 32-bit LDC build.

Wiki pages have been updated accordingly. Check out 
http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_and_hacking_LDC_on_Windows_using_MSVC if you want to start contributing too! Setting up the dev environment isn't that hard, I promise. :)