On Friday, 27 October 2017 at 01:40:07 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Friday, October 27, 2017 01:12:53 codephantom via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
VS is the most bloated piece of crap that's ever come out of
Microsoft!
Why encourage/force D developers to use it?
The problem is that to reasonably interact with the rest of the
Windows C/C++ ecosystem, you're pretty much stuck using
Microsoft's linker. If we can get that without pulling in all
of VS, all the better, but without the linker, we can't link
with most existing C/C++ code, which is a big problem. Before
we could use MS' linker, we had complaints for years about not
being compatible with other C/C++ stuff on Windows.
MS simply has not set things up in a way that makes it
reasonable to avoid VS if you want to link with C/C++ libraries
- especially since VS is all most C/C++ projects on Windows
target at this point.
- Jonathan M Davis
I'm not sure about WinSDK 10, but previous versions has all the
libs and tools necessary(linker!) and is much smaller
download(500 MB or so)
IIRC the problem is that DMD installer won't pick up SDK install
path, and most newcomers neither has the knowledge of sc.ini nor
the desire to mess with it.
