On Monday, 20 April 2015 at 04:32:32 UTC, Joakim wrote:
There are three aspects of Visual Studio used for D's Win64 support: the Microsoft C compiler to compile a few C files in COFF64 format, the Microsoft COFF64 linker, and the Microsoft C library in COFF64 format. Replacing only one will not get you very far.
As ifor the C compiler, wth DDMD around the corner that seems like it well be a non issue very soon. Really, all we would need are the linker and the libraries, right? I could still do more fiddling, but when I used this linker I used the library files that came with it almost exclusively. There was only one that I needed to add, and I'm sure that it can be figured out.
I just really like the idea of a self contained D compiler set up that doesn't need any other downloads to get working.
