64-bit DMD for windows?

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 21 May 2014 at 03:45:42 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
> Yes, DMD uses ld on linux. It's OK because there is no other
> linker. And it's system's default. Everybody(almost) have GCC.
>
> But on windows.. MSVS is external IDE and toolset. Some people
> yes they uses MinGW.
> Why ? MSVS has some disadvantages for me for example it's poor
> C++11 support. So it's useless in my work.
>
> So for compile 64 app with DMD one must download dmd(~20 MB) and
> install MSVS(~2 GB).
> I think dmd should work out of the box isn't it ?
>
> And what about other compilers ?
> Latest LDC for example uses 064 frontend.
>
> It's outdated for me because of bugs. I cannot ever compile my
> app now with it.
> With GDC it's alto difficult to get luck.

MSVC is the OS vendor's official tooling. Like XCode/clang on Mac
OS X, xlc on Aix, aC++ on HP-UX, SunPro on Solaris and so forth.

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Paulo