libgmp-3.dll missing from windows binary release

[Andrew Wiley]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:43 AM, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 March 2012 07:40, Andrew Wiley <wiley.andrew.j at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Kapps <opantm2+spam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Monday, 19 March 2012 at 10:57:13 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 19 March 2012 10:59, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On 17 March 2012 21:37, Andrej Mitrovic
>> >>> <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com>wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> On 3/17/12, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>> > Did find that one, but now missing libppl_c-4.dll
>> >>>> > This is a bit silly. A binary toolchain needs to have these > in
>> >>>> > the
>> >>>> archive.
>> >>>> > No point if you can't run it.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I think I've had the same issues before because I've installed TDM
>> >>>> x86
>> >>>> instead of the TDM x64 (labeled "experimental" in setup) . Could that
>> >>>> be the issue?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The GDC I've used is:
>> >>>> gcc-4.6.1-tdm64-1-gdc-232cd89d90b4-20120128.7z
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The TDM setup:
>> >>>> tdm64-gcc-4.6.1.exe
>> >>>>
>> >>>> libgmp-3.dll is then installed to
>> >>>> MinGW64\libexec\gcc\x86_64-w64-mingw32\4.6.1\ (and so is
>> >>>> libppl_c-4.dll)
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Okay, well I got that package, and it does seem to have the full list
>> >>> of
>> >>> dll's I need (there were about 5 more), but gdc still won't work:
>> >>> > gdc main.d
>> >>> gdc: fatal error: -fuse-linker-plugin, but liblto_plugin-0.dll not
>> >>> found compilation terminated.
>> >>>
>> >>> that dll was in there too, and it is certainly present in my path, but
>> >>> it
>> >>> continues to complain... :/
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Okay, I managed to make it work by just transplanting the whole gdc
>> >> distribution directly into a functioning MinGW64 installation. There
>> >> must
>> >> have been weird relative pathing built into the tools, so it didn't
>> >> find
>> >> the DLL's even though they were present in the path.
>> >>
>> >> I really think the next binary GDC release should carefully have all
>> >> those
>> >> DLL's included, so it actually like, works.
>> >> I'd say the point of a binary release is for windows users who don't
>> >> want
>> >> to know anything about linux or gcc toolchain issues can just use it
>> >> and
>> >> get to work :)
>> >
>> >
>> > Agreed. I've tried a couple of times to get GDC working, but every time
>> > I've
>> > given up simply because hunting down numerous libraries (which sometimes
>> > error themselves or need additional libraries themselves) is really not
>> > reasonable just to try a new compiler. If GDC was as simple to use as
>> > DMD,
>> > there would be many more Windows users.
>>
>> The instructions say quite clearly that there are two steps:
>> 1. Install the 64 bit distribution of TDM GCC
>> 2. Unzip the GDC release into the TDM GCC installation you just made
>>
>> If you do that, there are no missing libraries. Everything just works.
>> If you're having to hunt for libraries, you've done something wrong
>> somewhere.
>
>
> Did do something to that effect in the end. It's still rather un-windows-ey.
> Why not just put the few bits that it complains about in the distro?
> Apparently we both tripped at the same mistake.

I'm not really sure why Daniel isn't just zipping the full install so
you don't have to download TDM GCC separately. Might be some licensing
issue there or something.