On Friday, 27 October 2017 at 01:40:07 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
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.
How so? curl is an import library for libcurl.dll, mingw handles
import libraries just fine, same for zlib and mxWidgets. But most
of the time you only need to link phobos and some code from dub
and that's all.
