D Lang installation on Windows, dependency on Visual Studio?

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 16/11/2016 3:41 AM, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Dne 15.11.2016 v 14:23 AB via Digitalmars-d napsal(a):
>
>> On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 at 11:28:16 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 at 10:31:23 UTC, AB wrote:
>>>> Are there plans to write a homebrew 64-bit linker for DMD?
>>>
>>> There are already ld from mingw and lld from llvm team.
>>
>> Why aren't they used and distributed in DMD for Windows by default?
>>
>> If the tools mentioned above (LD and LLD) are available and usable on
>> Windows x64 instead of the ones provided in heavily bloated packages
>> by Microsoft, how come the DMD installer for Windows doesn't offer
>> them as an alternative (or better yet as the default)?
>>
> AFAIK ld on mingw can`t link against mscoff file format so it is not
> very usable. LLD is quite new so I do not know how production ready is.
> But I believe LLD will be the answer in future.


 From what I've read about LLD (~ 6+ months ago) the Windows 
implementation was a complete rewrite from the Linux support.
It most definitely isn't production ready or we would have heard about 
it (after all e.g. OSX will want to shift over to it).