What is the status of 64-bit development on Windows?

[katuday via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 20 October 2014 at 19:04:15 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Monday, 20 October 2014 at 18:36:20 UTC, katuday wrote:
>> I am new to D. Where do I get a D compiler to build 64-bit 
>> binaries on Windows 7?
>> Searching the forum shows 64-bit support on Windows as 
>> work-in-progress in 2013. Is this still the case?
>> Thanks.
>
> Win64 is pretty well-supported for some time now, though you 
> have to install the MSVC toolchain to use it.  The download 
> page was updated a couple months ago in a confusing way, all 
> dmd compilers support 64-bit compilation:
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/593/files
>
> What the download page means to say is that there's no 64-bit 
> dmd binary for Windows, but the 32-bit dmd binary will compile 
> D source into 64-bit Windows code also.  I'd submit a pull to 
> make this clear, but I'm not sure where it should go on the 
> page.  It should be fixed.

I am confused. Microsoft C/C++ tool chain is required in order to 
use dmd? How?
I do have several MS Visual C++ compilers including the latest 
(2013) but am not sure how I am supposed to used them alongside 
dmd.