On Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 15:06:40 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 14:05:22 UTC, mogu wrote:
It's awful that I compile a little 64bit program(or
-m32mscoff) in windows must have visual studio which has
tremendous size installed even though I only need a linker.
It's weird that a compiler compiles to binary targets needs
another compiler or tools. Sigh.
Microsoft now releases the Visual C++ Build Tools separately,
which contain their C++ toolchain without the IDE parts
(https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/31/announcing-the-official-release-of-the-visual-c-build-tools-2015/).
— David
I just tested. After the build tools 2015 installed, DMD
installer says "no compatible version(MSVC or SDK) founded, Do
you want to install VS2013?".