Win64/MinGW

[Johannes Pfau]

Am 14.11.2010, 20:30 Uhr, schrieb dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com>:

> == 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.

Building an 32bit windows GDC isn't that complicated, I built several  
versions of gdc according to this  
http://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/MinGWCompile howto and it worked  
well. 64bit could be more complicated: You need mingw-w64 and there are no  
gdc build instructions for that yet (I guess most of the 32bit  
instructions applies to 64bit as well though). I also don't know how  
complete the 64bit mingw port is. And the website states "However, when  
compiling for 64-bit we recommend using at least gcc-4.5.1 to take  
advantage of the many improvements and bug-fixes" but gdc only supports  
gcc up to 4.4.x.

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Johannes Pfau