windows d and 64 x86-64

[Sean Kelly]

Jakob Praher wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I'd like to use d for some kind of system progrmaming project within a 
> company that has to support windows 64 bit (windows 2003+) espesially in 
> a VS.Net environment (so to say MS toolchain). I don't think I am able 
> to pursuade them to switch to a mingw od cygwin environment.
> 
> Has anybody of you used the dmd compiler in tandem with the VS.NET 
> environment in a 64 bit environment.

No, though someone had a back-end that generated CLI code at one point. 
  Also, I was suddenly reminded of this this morning:

http://research.microsoft.com/phoenix/

It would take some work, but it might be interesting to see if the DMD 
front-end could be integrated with Phoenix as a shortcut to generating 
Win64 binaries.


Sean