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

[Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 19/03/2016 13:23, kinke wrote:
> 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. :)

Awesome, keep up the good work!

Now, I'm making a note to try again at some point soon to build lldb-mi, 
and see if it works well with the Eclipse CDT debugger. And more 
interestingly, if it would work with MSVC executables.

-- 
Bruno Medeiros
https://twitter.com/brunodomedeiros