DMD on WIndows 10

[Anonymouse]

On Saturday, 5 January 2019 at 14:05:48 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
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2015 necroposts? :3

On topic, I'm a Linux creature but I keep a Windows box around 
for various purposes.

1. No dmd64 download. Yes, dmd32 can build 64-bit code, but 
that's academical when it runs out of addressable memory and 
crashes. I'm currently downloading AppVeyor dmd.exe build 
artifacts; still wonder why the dlang.org download page doesn't 
offer links to those at the very least (compare with RPCS3 
downloads[1]). I fail to understand the reasoning here. It's not 
like excessive memory use isn't one of the things plaguing D.

2. Windows Defender/SafeScreen/something or another pauses. 
Downloading and running the dmd installer can take a minute or 
two as it presumably calls home to ask if it's okay to run.

3. Not dmd's fault, but no SSL libs for use with dlang-requests 
without falling back to downloading an installer from some shady 
site.

4. Something something vscode. I've been having more issues with 
it failing to compile code-d than on the Linux machines. That was 
before the fundraiser push though, likely it has improved since.

[1]: https://rpcs3.net/download