LDC now supports Windows MSVC x86/x64 as first class targets

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sun Mar 20 03:20:07 PDT 2016


On 3/19/2016 6:23 AM, kinke wrote:
> I'm proud to announce that MSVC is fully supported now for LDC trunk. Rainer
> Schuetze has implemented MSVC-compatible exception handling (available since
> brand-new LLVM 3.8) for LDC, so that we have fully working exception chaining
> now on Win64. Along the way, he also added 32-bit MSVC support and a TLS
> alignment bugfix for Windows < 8.1 (a Windows bug/wontfix!). It requires a
> bleeding edge LLVM though, as Rainer's work has uncovered a few LLVM bugs which
> didn't make it into 3.8 final.
> So a round of applause for Rainer and the LLVM devs, excellent job, thank you
> very much! Full PDB support for LLVM is also underway...

Congratulations!


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