On Friday, 2 March 2012 at 11:53:56 UTC, Manu wrote:
Personally, I just want to be able to link like a normal
windows developer.
My code is C/C++, built with VC, and I want to link my D app
against those
libs using the VC linker, and debug with Visual Studio. This is
the
workflow I think the vast majority of Windows devs will expect,
and it
sounds simple enough. This is the only thing standing between
me using D
for any major projects, and just experimenting with the
language for
evaluation, or just academic interest.
64bit is far less important to me personally, VisualC linker
compatibility
is the big one. I just want to link against my C code without
jumping
through lots of hoops.
That's exactly my problem... and although I love D, these hurdles
made me take a step back, to C++, while I wait for this to
change, so I can finally use D efficiently.
I'm sure this isn't a trivial task, but the problematic isn't new
after all. Why hasn't it been addressed yet? In my eyes this
should be a top priority, to make it easier for new users to get
into D. Till this poll I actually believed the problem was that D
isn't used much by Windows users.
