DMD, Windows and C

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 25.10.2017 18:05, Mike Parker wrote:
> In preparation for an upcoming blog series, and partly as a reaction to 
> the "Windows is a second-class citizen" criticisms that have been 
> cropping up lately, I've put together a primer on getting set up to use 
> C and D together on Windows. It includes some background on why we need 
> to install the MS toolchain to produce 64-bit binaries.
> 
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2017/10/25/dmd-windows-and-c/
> 
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/78olka/dmd_windows_and_c_getting_set_up_to_use_d_and_c/ 
> 

Thanks for the nice article. Two minor remarks:

- the D installer already creates batch files dmd2vars32.bat and 
dmd2vars64.bat that modify the PATH environment variable (but don't 
include the DMC path)

- DMD doesn't need lib.exe to build static libraries, that's built into DMD.