Win64/MinGW

dsimcha dsimcha at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 14 11:30:29 PST 2010


== Quote from Daniel Gibson (metalcaedes at gmail.com)'s article
> dsimcha schrieb:
> > I'm thinking of working on getting GDC MinGW binaries up somewhere.  I
> > understand the MinGW build process is highly non-trivial, and I'm trying to
> > decide if it's worth the effort.  What is the status of MinGW for 64-bit
> > Windows?  Is there any theoretical reason why 64-bit GDC for MinGW shouldn't
> > work?  If not, then I'll try to make it work.
> It may be a good start to build 32bit Windows binaries for GDC (and maybe
> provide an installer or something) and, with that experience, try to get 64bit
> Windows binaries.
> I don't know if there's any reason why 64bit Windows binaries shouldn't work.

To clarify:  I'm not willing to put much work into getting Win32 working b/c DMD
already works well for Win32, whereas DMD for Win64 isn't happening for a while
even after DMD for Linux64 is out because of linker issues.


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