D Lang installation on Windows, dependency on Visual Studio?

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 13:44:29 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:

>
> That's a true issue imho also. I had the same problem. Both my 
> machine at work and at home have their windows system partition 
> on a smallish SSD. Installing Visual Studio failed because of 
> lack of space. Even installing it on another drive fails 
> because even in that case the Microsofties want to install 
> gigabytes of stuff on the system drive. Extremely annoying when 
> you only want to install an otherwise extremely lean 
> development tool (dmd) to test 100 liners.

Same here. Last week I tried to install dmd on Windows only to 
learn that there was not enough space for Visual Studio.