Initial Windows experience

[Basile B.]

On Friday, 14 June 2019 at 10:29:07 UTC, Dennis wrote:
> On Friday, 14 June 2019 at 09:03:17 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
>> Are there any reasons to stick with optlink as the default?
>
> With the latest DUB, it defaults to mscoff now:
> https://dlang.org/changelog/2.086.0.html#dmd-mscoff-default
>
> DMD itself still uses OPTLINK I believe.

no when you pass -m64 to DMD then it uses LLD (shipped with the 
default distrib) and the static libraries from MinGW (shipped 
with the default distrib as well). So the idea would be that -m64 
should be the default. In this case people who don't have the MS 
toolchain setup would see their stuff compiled seamlessly and the 
others too. Even LDC supports -m64 without MS stuff nowadays.