D1 & D2 alpha's for Win64

[Damian]

On Wednesday, 17 October 2012 at 10:46:37 UTC, Gor Gyolchanyan 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 16 October 2012 at 16:44:59 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> On 10/16/2012 8:58 AM, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>>> It worked fine for me at first! This is awesome!
>>
>> Great!
>>
>>> But is it possible to use VC linker for 32-bit architectures?
>>
>> No.
>
> Is there a reason why it isn't possible?
> If you managed to delegate the linking to 64-bit VC linker, 
> effectively producing 64-bit COFF binaries, then what would it 
> take to do it for 32-bit too?
>
> This would end the COFF vs OMF problem once and for all...

Although that would be great, it also means everybody who wants 
to use
D2 and have COFF support would also have to get VS. That seems 
like the wrong direction to go in. Be much nicer if D2 can have 
this out of the box.