Weird compiler

[mogu via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 15:06:40 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 14:05:22 UTC, mogu wrote:
>> It's awful that I compile a little 64bit program(or 
>> -m32mscoff) in windows must have visual studio which has 
>> tremendous size installed even though I only need a linker. 
>> It's weird that a compiler compiles to binary targets needs 
>> another compiler or tools. Sigh.
>
> Microsoft now releases the Visual C++ Build Tools separately, 
> which contain their C++ toolchain without the IDE parts 
> (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/31/announcing-the-official-release-of-the-visual-c-build-tools-2015/).
>
>  — David

Thanks. But it's also too big. At least you need 3GB free space.