D Lang installation on Windows, dependency on Visual Studio?

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On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 10:20:48 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 09:51:39 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> Now there is 
>> http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools, 
>> perhaps we should be encouraging using that instead?
>
> It's still 3gb, so one might want to delete unneeded stuff 
> after installation, like arm tools and cross compilers.

Are there plans to write a homebrew 64-bit linker for DMD?

To this question I would appreciate an answer from the people who 
develop DMD itself and its 32-bit linker.