Beta 2.079.0

Atila Neves atila.neves at gmail.com
Tue Feb 20 09:49:07 UTC 2018


On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 21:50:02 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:
>
>
> 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...

How does one keep on using Microsoft's linker? I've tried lld on 
Linux and while some binaries ran fine, others crashed. I don't 
trust it all right now.

Atila


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