Linux -> Windows crosscompiler

[kinke via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 16:00:24 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> Hi Marvin,
>
> On 28 May 2017, at 8:12, Marvin Gülker via digitalmars-d-ldc 
> wrote:
>> Obviously, the alternate solution is to rely on the open-source
>> GCC/MinGW/MSYS2 toolchain for crosscompilation, which is not 
>> going to
>> cause a licensing problem. I understand that this does not 
>> work with the
>> current state of affairs, but I wanted to mention it for 
>> completeness.
>
> This is correct. mingw-w64 is actually how we used to target 
> Win64 before we had MSVC support; fixing Phobos to work with it 
> again wouldn't be too much of a hassle. However, it turns out 
> that the vast majority of developers prefer using the MSVC 
> toolchain on Windows, apart from directly porting *nix code 
> using Cygwin, so it wasn't a priority to maintain so far.
>
> However, if you are seriously interested in cross-compiling to 
> Win64, you might indeed find it easiest to resurrect the 
> mingw-w64 port (so you can easily build a cross-toolchain for C 
> as well). The most time-consuming bit would probably just be 
> setting up CI support for it to make sure it doesn't regress.

I have no idea about GDC support for Windows, but using GDC when 
targeting the GNU toolchain on Windows would be a more natural 
choice IMO. It'd surely be nice if LDC could target windows-gnu 
again, but it's not on my priority list. :]