D Lang installation on Windows, dependency on Visual Studio?

[Jerry via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 16 November 2016 at 04:04:05 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
>
> And then we'll get complaints that they need another big 
> download just to compile basic 32bit programs... This whole 
> argument about making changes is rediculas.
>
> Unless we get explicit permission from Microsoft to distribute 
> the parts we needs, I think it is safe to say that Optlink 
> stays, in fact  nothing will change.

So just make it a switch. It's fine for anyone wanting to just 
try it, but for everyone else they probably already have to 
download Visual Studio.