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

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 22:15:41 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 21:47:48 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> Windows has been a bit of a pain, but mostly from the native 
>> code library side.
>
> I've found D on Windows to be very easy for myself and for my 
> end users... but not for intermediate developers.
>
> For myself, I just set up the necessary .lib files in my dmd 
> lib folder and problem solved. I can do conversions or 
> generation as needed.
>
> For the end users, I'll just do a binary distribution and 
> things just work for them.
>
> But intermediate devs having to set up the environment can be a 
> pain... that's why my libs are set up in a particular way to 
> work with dmd out of the box and other stuff opt in..

Yes, but suppose you want to build a C library like Google 
snappy, nanomsg or leveldb.  It's a bit of a pain on Windows.  No 
worse with D than C++.  But it looks awfully complicated coming 
from C#.