• Vasileios Anagnostopoulos (5/5) Feb 11 2016 It seems that I need MSVC tool to use it, which I do not plan to
• Kai Nacke (11/16) Feb 11 2016 Hi Vasileios!
• Stefan Koch (2/7) Feb 11 2016 What issues are there with the mingw druntime ?
• Kai Nacke (8/9) Feb 12 2016 The mingw runtime is a mix between digital mars and msvc runtime.
• Daniel N (4/13) Feb 18 2016 It's now possible to install a minimal gui-less MS dev
• Kagamin (4/7) Feb 20 2016 ld from mingw64 works fine for me with ldc, but it may not apply

Vasileios Anagnostopoulos <fithis2001 gmail.com> writes:

It seems that I need MSVC tool to use it, which I do not plan to 
use.

Any other tools suggestions?

Linkers/ resource compilers compatible with LDC2 on Windows x64?

Thank you.

Kai Nacke <kai redstar.de> writes:

On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 13:37:54 UTC, Vasileios 
Anagnostopoulos wrote:
 It seems that I need MSVC tool to use it, which I do not plan 
 to use.

 Any other tools suggestions?

 Linkers/ resource compilers compatible with LDC2 on Windows x64?

 Thank you.

Hi Vasileios!

It is not only the linker. The C library is also used. (The zlib 
component is written in C, used functions like strcpy() are in 
the C library.)

As there is no volunteer who tries to sort out the druntime issue 
with MinGW I am sorry to say that there is currently no 
alternative toolset.

Regards,
Kai

Stefan Koch <uplink.coder googlemail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 17:29:22 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
 As there is no volunteer who tries to sort out the druntime 
 issue with MinGW I am sorry to say that there is currently no 
 alternative toolset.

 Regards,
 Kai

What issues are there with the mingw druntime ?

Kai Nacke <kai redstar.de> writes:

On Friday, 12 February 2016 at 02:11:07 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
 What issues are there with the mingw druntime ?

The mingw runtime is a mix between digital mars and msvc runtime. 
You have to make sure that the right function is used. There is 
currenlty no CRuntime_MinGW version.

It is "only" an issue with druntime. The compiler itselfs fully 
supports MinGW.

Regards,
Kai

Daniel N <ufo orbiting.us> writes:

On Friday, 12 February 2016 at 20:55:07 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
 On Friday, 12 February 2016 at 02:11:07 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
 What issues are there with the mingw druntime ?

 The mingw runtime is a mix between digital mars and msvc 
 runtime. You have to make sure that the right function is used. 
 There is currenlty no CRuntime_MinGW version.

 It is "only" an issue with druntime. The compiler itselfs fully 
 supports MinGW.

 Regards,
 Kai

It's now possible to install a minimal gui-less MS dev 
environment... might be a good alternative for some?

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/02/16/try-out-the-latest-c-compiler-toolset-without-waiting-for-the-next-update-of-visual-studio/

Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:

On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 13:37:54 UTC, Vasileios 
Anagnostopoulos wrote:
 It seems that I need MSVC tool to use it, which I do not plan 
 to use.

 Any other tools suggestions?

ld from mingw64 works fine for me with ldc, but it may not apply 
to druntime.