D Lang installation on Windows, dependency on Visual Studio?

[thedeemon via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 13:44:29 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
> Extremely annoying when you only want to install an otherwise 
> extremely lean development tool (dmd) to test 100 liners.

But you most probably don't need all that stuff for testing your 
100-liners. By default DMD on Windows builds 32-bit binaries 
where its own linker is used, you don't really need MS linker to 
make Windows binaries with DMD. 32 bits are quite fine for most 
cases.