Running vibe.d tutorial on Windows?

[JN]

On Tuesday, 26 February 2019 at 10:35:10 UTC, bauss wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 February 2019 at 10:34:19 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 26 February 2019 at 08:11:15 UTC, shadowgun1102 
>> wrote:
>>> I'm trying to run/build the vibe.d tutorial on Windows. When 
>>> I run the following:
>>>
>>> dub init tut -t vibe.d
>>> cd tut
>>> dub
>>>
>>> I get this error: https://postimg.cc/gwTB6y0G
>>>
>>> I tried adding
>>>
>>> "subConfigurations": {"vibe-d": "win32"}
>>>
>>> to my dub.json, but that didn't seem to change anything.
>>
>> Compile with -a=x8s_mscoff
>>
>> Plenty of discussions about it.
>
> -a=x86_mscoff
>
> Sorry for the typo.

Any reason why it's not the default? I don't see any reasons for 
x86 (rather than x86_64) to be the default, given how many 
problems it causes. Honestly, even better, on 64bit OSes (99% of 
users?) x86_64 should be the default.