Build gdc on Windows

[Johannes Pfau via D.gnu]

Am Wed, 3 Feb 2016 09:00:37 +0100
schrieb "Iain Buclaw via D.gnu" <d.gnu at puremagic.com>:

> On 3 Feb 2016 8:54 am, "Iain Buclaw" <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 3 Feb 2016 3:10 am, "Carl Sturtivant via D.gnu"
> > <d.gnu at puremagic.com>  
> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'd like to build gdc to be compatible with the Mingw-w64 64-bit
> > > gcc on  
> Windows. (Building gdc to be compatible with the Mingw-w64 32-bit gcc
> on Windows also interests me.)
> > >
> > > Is this feasible right now, and if so, how should I proceed?
> > >  
> >
> > There is: http://gdcproject.org/downloads
> >
> > I'll have to dig out what scripts were used to build them (I didn't
> > write  
> them).
> 
> Ah, cleverly hidden in my own organisation repo!
> 
> https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/build-gdc
> 

See also:
https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/build-gdc-docker
http://build-gdc.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

But the binaries are probably not compatible with some other Mingw-w64
compilers. Some builds use static libgccs, some builds use special
patches, ...

Another simple way to build GDC on windows is using MSYS2:
http://msys2.github.io/

Simply modify/adapt the PKGBUILD:
https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-gcc