D for Game Development

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 at 13:32:10 UTC, kink wrote:
> Afaik DMD for Win64 requires the MS linker, so good luck 
> without Visual Studio then. Same goes for LDC on Win64, 
> although an LLVM COFF linker is under development. Serious 
> system programming on Windows without MSVC and its C runtime? 
> Not really an option; MinGW appears to be a dead end and never 
> really fitted the Windows eco-system.

MSVC toolchain is required to link 3rd-party C++ code compiled 
with MSVC, mingw links c runtime just fine.