Windows integration [was: Re: There really needs to be some moderation]

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 21:06:07 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> Is it possible to use lld on Windows?  I never tried it myself.
> https://lld.llvm.org/

Says they don't support debug info (debugger being another 
dependency on VisualStudio).
But yes, different toolchains (mingw, lld) and cross compilation 
(gdc, ldc) might improve the situation.
The last gdc cross-compiler supported Windows is from 1/24/16.
ftp://ftp.gdcproject.org/binaries/4.9.2/x86_64-linux-gnu/

AFAIK clang had quite some Windows support issues as well, so 
maybe we can draw some bits from their solutions.

Part of the problem is that we have very few contributors that 
are using Windows, so there isn't much personal motivation to 
work on that.