Weird compiler

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 14:05:22 UTC, mogu wrote:
> 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.

Microsoft now releases the Visual C++ Build Tools separately, 
which contain their C++ toolchain without the IDE parts 
(https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/31/announcing-the-official-release-of-the-visual-c-build-tools-2015/).

  — David