64-bit DMD for windows?

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 21 May 2014 at 03:15:34 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On 21 May 2014 05:15, Temtaime via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> Sorry i misunderstood you.
>> Yes dmd supports x64 on windows but it doesn't work without 
>> external tools.
>> It's a main trouble i think.
>
> MSVC is the de facto standard toolset for Windows. How do you
> interoperate with any other conventional windows libraries if 
> DMD is
> not MSVC compatible?
> This is the key development of DMD for Win64, and it's the only 
> reason
> D is practically useful on Windows at all. I pine for the day 
> that
> 32bit will get the same treatment.

I believe Rainer did some work on extending COFF support to
32-bit. I'm not sure how far along he got.