64-bit DMD for windows?

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d]

On 21.05.2014 14:17, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 May 2014 at 03:15:34 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
>> On 21 May 2014 05:15, Temtaime via Digitalmars-d
>> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>> Sorry i misunderstood you.
>>> Yes dmd supports x64 on windows but it doesn't work without external
>>> tools.
>>> It's a main trouble i think.
>>
>> MSVC is the de facto standard toolset for Windows. How do you
>> interoperate with any other conventional windows libraries if DMD is
>> not MSVC compatible?
>> This is the key development of DMD for Win64, and it's the only reason
>> D is practically useful on Windows at all. I pine for the day that
>> 32bit will get the same treatment.
>
> I believe Rainer did some work on extending COFF support to
> 32-bit. I'm not sure how far along he got.

I recently considered making a pull request, but noticed an include 
dependency that failed to work for another PR, and got distracted. The 
updated compiler patches are here: 
https://github.com/rainers/dmd/tree/coff32