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[Tomas Lindquist Olsen]

Robert Fraser wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros Wrote:
>> Robert Fraser wrote:
>>> I hope so, but realistically LDC only works on x86 Linux and there's a 
>>> lot of work getting it to work on other platforms (much of this work on 
>>> LLVM itself instead of just LDC).
>> What do you mean? Are there any significant issues with LLVM itself on 
>> the Windows platform?
> 
> Namely structured exception handling.
> 
> I'd actually like to see a Phoenix compiler on Windows. Many Windows developers use MSVC, and being able to statically link to MSVC-generated code will help in migration of existing codebases to D (DMD uses the same object format as MS, but it won't link). It would also open the door to CLI support (shall we call it D.NET or D#?).

In the end LLVM could get us all that. There's already work getting LLVM do work with MSVC and 
there is actually a MSIL backend for LLVM as well.