D Lang installation on Windows, dependency on Visual Studio?

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 09:33:48 UTC, AB wrote:
> On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 09:06:18 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> DMD can generate 64-bit object files just fine, you only need 
>> to link them, and DMD can invoke ms linker for you, that's all.
>
> It is unreasonable to pull in the many GBs of Visual Studio as 
> a dependency only to use its 64-bit linker.

FWIW, Digger can download and unpack only those parts of Visual 
Studio that D needs:

https://github.com/CyberShadow/ae/blob/3365c066c78a82584b8fc5b24edc4da0a4f738a8/sys/d/manager.d#L2089-L2104

Digger is https://github.com/CyberShadow/Digger.