Portable D compiler builds

[kinke]

On Saturday, 30 March 2019 at 17:00:12 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
> The goal is to provide a complete solution to build an ordinary 
> d app without having visual studio installed.
> [...]
> Dmd for now can only work with omf libs and link only 32 bit 
> apps, ldc - with mingw libs.

Erm nope, DMD works fine with COFF libs (-m32mscoff) and 64-bit 
(-m64) too; it's been shipping with the LLD linker and 
MinGW-based libs for a while, LDC followed suite but uses 
different MinGW-based libs. The only drawback is that these libs 
require a VC runtime installation for *running* generated 
binaries (but no MinGW). But Visual Studio or the Build Tools are 
purely optional for both compilers, and mostly interesting to 
link against the static MS libs to prevent the MS DLL 
dependencies.

> Static libs for imports are taken from a pelles c compiler and 
> can be redistributed, i'll add a notice and license files.

Okay that's *very* interesting, and I highly doubt they are 
allowed to do so. See recent 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19760.