LDC 0.9 released

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Christian Kamm" <kamm-incasoftware at removethis.de> wrote in message 
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> dsimcha wrote:
>> Also, some Win32 builds, both w/ and w/o D2 support, would be appreciated
>> if
>> possible.  I am interested in playing around with LDC on Win32 and filing
>> bug
>> reports, etc. even if exception handling is broken.  I just tried to 
>> build
>> LDC myself and got some ridiculous, inscrutible error messages that I
>> probably won't
>> get to troubleshooting too soon.  If someone more familiar w/ LDC has a
>> decent build environment set up already, please post some builds.
>
> D2 support is still a long way off, we haven't even begun implementing 
> most
> of its specific features.
>
> We won't release official Win32 builds as long as exception handling is
> unsupported. However, Elrood actually had Win32 binaries online a few
> months ago. He's also written the extensive LDC on Windows with MinGW
> step-by-step guide (http://www.dsource.org/projects/ldc/wiki/LDC_MinGW) 
> and
> would surely welcome your feedback if something in there is unclear or
> doesn't work for you.
>

Is MSYS/MinGW needed for building LDC/LLVM on windows? I found that to be a 
problem with GCC.