D, windows developement, frustration and fish

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On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:03:30 +0000, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

> This will not work and is not D's fault. The DLL does not contain
> information required to create a working import library (the size of
> parameters on the stack is included in the mangled name).

i wonder how mingw linker is able to use .dlls without corresponding .lib 
files to link windows executables. maybe it's a weird art of forbidden 
black magic or something...

> BTW, next time please post in digitalmars.D.learn. The bug report about
> extern(Windows) overriding pragma(mangle) belongs in Bugzilla. The
> well-known fact that D does not include Windows headers is merely a task
> waiting for someone to champion it, feel free to take it if you care
> strongly about this.

you seem to completely miss my point. let me quote myself:

> years in developement. 2.067 release. still can't compile simple
> utility without solving stupid puzzles.

all that "H1 2015 Priorities" are BULLSHIT. complete and utterly 
bullshit. dmd is an alien for GNU/Linux. dmd is an alien for windows. yet 
there is *no* *single* *fsckin'* *word* about better platform support in 
"H1 2015 Priorities". "Improving our brand"? "2000 pull requests"? "C++ 
integration"? really? it *that* what D desperately needs? D is unusable 
for bare metal. D is unusable for simply daily programming tasks. sure, 
that is that "brand" thing that aimed to fix the situation. upgrading 
toolchain is not an option.
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