Initial Windows experience

[Jonathan Marler]

On Friday, 14 June 2019 at 16:25:07 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Friday, 14 June 2019 at 16:04:11 UTC, user wrote:
>> FINALLY ... I have been waiting for this since for ever.
>> I am about to cry now :)
>> Thanks for all the effort ... all the people who worked on it.
>>
>> Now, I just have to see how can I port my Java code to D.
>
> One thing you should keep in mind when you want to distribute 
> your applications.
> Applications compiled with lld will have a dependency to a ms c 
> runtime dll.
> Your application will not work on systems without this dll.
> On the other hand applications compiled with ms linker from 
> e.g. MS Build Tools won't have this dependency.
>
> This is nothing bad, just a detail you have to keep in mind 
> whole setting up your production build pipeline.
>
> Kind regards
> Andre

Issue 19760 - Windows 10 -m64 undocumented dependency on MSVC ++ 
Redistributable when linking with LLD

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19760