D Lang installation on Windows, dependency on Visual Studio?

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/14/2016 04:33 AM, 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.
>

The Linux and Mac versions rely on Linux/Mac's native C linkers, 
regardless of 32/64 bit. If Win's native linker is too large, or can't 
be obtained as part of a small enough package, that's really a Microsoft 
problem. You can't blame Samsung if there's nothing good to watch on TV.