How to setup GDC with Visual D?

[Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 3 July 2015 at 23:45:15 UTC, Guy Gervais wrote:
> On Friday, 3 July 2015 at 19:17:28 UTC, Marko Grdinic wrote:
>> Any advice regarding how I can get this to work? Thanks.
>
> I got GDC to work with VS2013 + VisualD by going into 
> "Tools->Options" (The VS menu, not the one under "Visual D") 
> and adding the paths under "Projects and Solutions -> Visual D 
> Settings -> GDC Directories". I put the path to the bin folder 
> in MinGW64 and the bin folder in GDC.
>
> I get a 10%-15% speed improvement, which is nice, but my 
> binaries are 10 times larger.

Thats probably due to debug info which GDC does not strip by 
default.