Building phobos GDC

[Lodovico Giaretta via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 22 July 2016 at 18:30:13 UTC, Rufus Smith wrote:
> Trying to compile code that uses GDC, had to import phobos 
> files from dmd in to project since they are not in the GDC's 
> phobo lib(the core.sys.windows stuff).
>
> Almost all the errors are related to stuff like
>
> PALETTEENTRY* peNew() return { return _peNew.ptr; }
>
>
> Does that even make sense?

I'll add that, in general, it's a bad idea to mix the libraries 
of the various compilers. In fact, the library has the same 
release cycle as the frontend, and is specific to the frontend 
version it comes with. GDC is several frontend versions behind 
DMD, so GDC cannot support the new features / characteristics of 
the recent DMD libraries.
You should always use a Phobos version as old as the frontend of 
the compiler you're using.