On Sunday, 10 December 2017 at 18:11:46 UTC, Suliman wrote:
> Is it's possible to produce x64 binaries on Windows x64 without installing Visual Studio? DMD do not have linker for x64.

Beside linker you will need C startup code. Where do you plan to get it?

On Sunday, 10 December 2017 at 17:33:34 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.7. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>
> * Based on D 2.077.1.
> * Catching C++ exceptions supported on Linux and Windows.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.7.0-beta1
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

The archive at
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/download/v1.7.0-beta1/ldc-1.7.0-beta1-src.tar.gz is broken. The https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/download/v1.7.0-beta1/ldc-1.7.0-beta1-src.zip works though.

On Monday, 18 December 2017 at 19:59:02 UTC, Thomas Mader wrote:
> The archive at
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/download/v1.7.0-beta1/ldc-1.7.0-beta1-src.tar.gz is broken. The https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/download/v1.7.0-beta1/ldc-1.7.0-beta1-src.zip works though.

It's compressed twice for unknown reason, see https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/2455.