On 17/04/2026 9:29 PM, DLearner wrote:
I do feel that consideration should be given to somehow arranging that,
for a Windows installation, a mechanism should be provided such that
DMD's ImportC option works /without/ having to download VS (perhaps by
incorporating an existing open source preprocessor). The gross bloat and
complexity of VS is not DMD's fault, but it should not be encouraged.
A long time ago I managed to hack clang via mingw to work as the
preprocessor for dmd on Windows.
No work has progressed on this front since I last tried it ages ago.
But ultimately system toolchains are special things for native
development. You're stuck with the official one and for Windows you get
it via VS, regardless of how much you or I dislike it.
