Weird compiler

[Rene Zwanenburg via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 14:05:22 UTC, mogu wrote:
> Today, I'm working on a private GUI tool which must be run at 
> linux and windows. It's awful that I compile a little 64bit 
> program(or -m32mscoff) in windows must have visual studio which 
> has tremendous size installed even though I only need a linker. 
> It's weird that a compiler compiles to binary targets needs 
> another compiler or tools. Sigh.

There's no need to install VS if you don't use it otherwise, the 
windows platform SDK should suffice; it comes with the microsoft 
linker and all the lib files, and the DMD installer should detect 
it just fine.