D Lang installation on Windows, dependency on Visual Studio?

[Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d]

Dne 16.11.2016 v 04:17 rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d napsal(a):
> 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).
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-LD-Linker-Default-Discuss
But I guess they are speaking about linux, freebsd and maybe OSX