dmd without gcc depency

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 25 December 2015 at 12:57:50 UTC, Jardik wrote:
> Now that dmd is written in D language, is it possible to use 
> dmd without the need to have gcc and its libraries installed? 
> Or would it be possible, if I didn't need to call any extern 
> C++ functions? If not, is it planned for dmd to be self hosting 
> in the future?

You don't need gcc to _use_ dmd now, only to build its dmc 
backend.  Dmd calls your C compiler, usually gcc, to link objects 
on linux, but you could replace that with a direct call to your 
linker if you know what you're doing.  If you don't want to use 
gcc to build dmd itself, there are plans to convert the dmc 
backend to D also, but not for a couple releases.