Beta 2.079.0

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 19/02/2018 21:17, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 10:49:03 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.079.0 release, ♥ to the 77 
>> contributors for this release.
>>
>> [...]
> 
> This release is fantastic!
> 
> In the change log information about lld linker is missing. Maybe you can 
> add
> some info how to use it instead of link.exe (the OMF one).
> 
> Kind regards
> André

LLD does not replace the OMF linker, but the MS linker for COFF.

The Windows installer also comes with platform libraries built from the 
mingw definitions and a wrapper library for the VC distributable C 
runtime libraries. This allows using dmd with -m64 and -m32mscoff 
without having to install Visual Studio, the VC build tools or the 
Windows SDK.

I'll add a PR for the changelog...