DMD, Windows and C

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 25.10.2017 18:57, kinke wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 October 2017 at 16:05:48 UTC, 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/ 
>>
> 
> LLVM's LLD is another option for linking on Windows (and cross-linking 
> to Windows from other platforms); they used not to support debuginfos 
> (.pdb), not sure what the current state is. `lld-link.exe` and 
> `llvm-lib.exe` work as drop-in replacements,
I tried lld-link just yesterday on a small DMD generated test file. 
Apart from not supporting the /MAP option it worked without debug 
information, but choked on debug symbols.