64bit only on Windows?

[bauss]

On Saturday, 5 February 2022 at 01:49:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Saturday, 5 February 2022 at 00:21:17 UTC, bauss wrote:
>
>>
>> Personally I'm mostly a Windows user myself and even after 
>> using D for a decade I still find myself shooting myself in 
>> the foot once in a while trying to just build a simple project.
>>
>> I think the biggest problem on Windows is linking. It never 
>> really works out of the box.
>
> The only Windows-specific linker errors I've encountered in all 
> my years of using D have been related to linking with C 
> libraries that were compiled differently than my executable, 
> i.e., they were built with MinGW, or they used MSVC settings 
> that caused them to link with a different version of the C 
> runtime. That happens in the C world, too.
>
> Linking on Linux has pitfalls also. The problem I've 
> encountered the most is that the order that libraries are 
> passed to the linker matters. I've also had issues with 
> mistmatched libc versions.

Yeah, I think I might have exaggerated a little bit. It's not 
that I come across linker issues often and they're often fairly 
easy to resolve tbh

And it definitely wasn't meant to be seen as a "Windows is the 
only platform that has issues."