LDC for Windows

[David Nadlinger]

On Monday, 2 December 2013 at 08:03:03 UTC, Mike wrote:
> David Nadlinger's talk at DConf 2013 stated that Windows 
> support wasn't quite there, but I couldn't determine if he was 
> referring to compiling for Windows, or running on Windows, or 
> both.

I was referring only to compiling _for_ Windows in the talk, and 
that situation has improved quite a bit since DConf. As far as 
MinGW/Win32 goes, the only thing really missing at this point is 
a CI slave and a bit of work to eliminate the remaining test 
suite failures.

As far as running LDC on Windows goes, I don't know of any 
remaining limitations. What bugged us for a while is the 
unavailability of 80 bit floating point operations in the 
Microsoft C runtime, but at least when building with MinGW, this 
should be solved by now. Maybe Kai can tell you more about the 
situation with MSVC builds.

With regards to cross-compiling for ARM, one thing we notably 
don't do yet is using the target floating point semantic for 
'real', etc. during compile-time function evaluation. Whether 
this is a problem or not is a subject of debate – for the time 
being, just keep in mind that the CTFE results might be 
calculated with a higher precision than during runtime on the 
target hardware.

David