This is extremely good news! Where is LDC at with the D frontend at the moment? Have Walter's numerous February fixes for C++ compatibility made their way in yet?
Also, out of curiosity, has anyone looked at connecting the MS codegen (C2.DLL) to LDC like MS do with Clang+C2 (Clang frontend w/ MS codegen) that was released in VS2015 Update 1/2? I suspect their C2.DLL connectivity code must be available(?), and theoretically LDC could connect to it for codegen the same way Clang does(?), and that would lead to 100% MS compatible binary and debuginfo output. ClangC2 produces binaries that are almost indistinguishable from MSVC compiled binaries while debugging. On 19 March 2016 at 23:23, kinke via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm proud to announce that MSVC is fully supported now for LDC trunk. Rainer > Schuetze has implemented MSVC-compatible exception handling (available since > brand-new LLVM 3.8) for LDC, so that we have fully working exception > chaining now on Win64. Along the way, he also added 32-bit MSVC support and > a TLS alignment bugfix for Windows < 8.1 (a Windows bug/wontfix!). It > requires a bleeding edge LLVM though, as Rainer's work has uncovered a few > LLVM bugs which didn't make it into 3.8 final. > So a round of applause for Rainer and the LLVM devs, excellent job, thank > you very much! Full PDB support for LLVM is also underway... > > CI testing with AppVeyor has been improved, so that the full test suite is > run for both x86 and x64 MSVC targets. All tests pass except for 3 rather > negligible issues (see > https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/1354#issuecomment-198572582 for > details). > > The automatically updated GitHub release > (http://wiki.dlang.org/Latest_LDC_binaries_for_Windows) now also includes a > downloadable 32-bit LDC build. > > Wiki pages have been updated accordingly. Check out > http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_and_hacking_LDC_on_Windows_using_MSVC if you > want to start contributing too! Setting up the dev environment isn't that > hard, I promise. :)
