D, windows developement, frustration and fish

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 1 February 2015 at 10:33:51 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> 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...

What are you talking about? See WinGW\lib\libuser32.a for example.

The D Win32 headers are actually translated from the MinGW 
headers.

> you seem to completely miss my point.

No, I did not miss it and I do not disagree. I created a thread 
with a proposal to improve this use case.

However, curiously, D is actually often criticized as being too 
Windows-biased.