• d-bugmail puremagic.com (27/27) Nov 13 2019 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20390

d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20390

          Issue ID: 20390
           Summary: Add llvm-dlltool.exe to dmd windows release?
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P1
         Component: tools
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: andre s-e-a-p.de

While implib has the purpose to create OMF import libraries for DLLs,
llvm-dlltool.exe has the purpose to create COFF (x86 and x86_64) import
libraries for DLLs.

Could you consider to either add this executable to the DMD windows release or
to make it easily downloadable from the "Other download" section on
https://dlang.org/download.html?

While searching the tool on web, it is quite hard to find it. At the end I
found it in this tar archive
https://msys2.duckdns.org/package/mingw-w64-x86_64-llvm?repo=mingw64 which is
not that easy to extract on windows.

The executable has a size of 20 MB and 5 MB within a zip file. Maybe we just
zip it and provide the link on "Other download" to not increase the size of DMD
too much?

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