Note from a donor

[Kagamin]

On Friday, 27 October 2017 at 01:40:07 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> The problem is that to reasonably interact with the rest of the 
> Windows C/C++ ecosystem, you're pretty much stuck using 
> Microsoft's linker. If we can get that without pulling in all 
> of VS, all the better, but without the linker, we can't link 
> with most existing C/C++ code, which is a big problem.

How so? curl is an import library for libcurl.dll, mingw handles 
import libraries just fine, same for zlib and mxWidgets. But most 
of the time you only need to link phobos and some code from dub 
and that's all.