LDC 1.7.0-beta1

[kinke]

On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 at 08:42:40 UTC, Suliman wrote:
>>> Is it's possible to produce x64 binaries on Windows x64 
>>> without installing Visual Studio? DMD do not have linker for 
>>> x64.
>>
>> You could try using the llvm linker, lld, as noted in the 
>> release notes for ldc 1.5:
>
> Could you explain hot to do it? Install LLVM? And than how I 
> could specify what linker should be used?

Please, I'm tired of explaining this over and over. From LDC's 
README.txt: `LDC relies on the MS linker and MSVCRT + WinSDK 
libs.` The first part isn't actually true anymore, 
`-link-internally` makes LDC link itself via embedded LLD. **But 
you still need the Windows and Visual C++ runtime libs.**
In the LDC release notes (v1.3 IIRC), you'll find a link to a 
guide about how to produce Win64 binaries from a Linux host; 
that'd be applicable on Windows too for people having such a big 
problem with installing Visual Studio/Build Tools.