D Lang installation on Windows, dependency on Visual Studio?

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 16 November 2016 at 18:03:31 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> Perhaps we should take the missing parts from the ELLCC tool 
> chain [1]. It's a cross-compiler tool chain based on LLVM. It 
> contains a compiler, linker, C/C++ standard library, other 
> binutils and is completely self contained.
>
> [1] http://ellcc.org

It seems to use MinGW-w64, which uses the GNU linker, which can't 
create PDB files.