What's up with GDC?

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 12 June 2016 at 02:09:24 UTC, Joerg Joergonson wrote:
> Ok, So I started an empty project and I found all the libs that 
> are required from all of VS, SDK, LDC, DMD, etc and put them in 
> 4 folders:
>
> Libs\COFF\x86
> Libs\COFF\x64
> Libs\OMF\x86
> Libs\OMF\x64

There's no need for OMF\x64. OPTLINK is 32-bit only. That's why 
DMD uses the MS tools for 64-bit. And you never need OMF for LDC.

>
> fixed up sc.ini and VD to use them and worked on stuff until I 
> had no lib errors with the test project. I could compile with 
> all versions now(DMD x86/64, LDC x86/64)

You said in your previous post that DMD was working fine for you. 
I would recommend against editing sc.ini except in the case where 
you do manual installs of DMD and need to configure it to work 
with Visual Studio. It's a pain to have to do it every time you 
update. Much better to use the installer and let it configure the 
VS paths for you.

>
> So, ldc is essentially working... gdc probably is the same if I 
> can figure out how to get the proper binaries(not that 
> arm-unknown-linux crap) that are not so far out of date. At 
> this point I still need to get ldc to work though.

I would recommend against GDC for now. Until someone steps up and 
starts packaging regular MinGW-based releases, it's probably not 
worth it.

> I probably just need to figure out how to properly include the 
> library files mentioned in my other post.
>
> I did try to include the path to the files in VD's LDC settings 
> section but it did nothing.

Did you also include the libraries in the project settings? You 
can:

A) Add the path to 'Library Search Path' and add the library 
names to 'Library Files' or,
B) Add the full path and filename for each library to 'Library 
Files'.

I strongly recommend against doing this for system libraries like 
OpenGL. If LDC is configured to know where your VS installation 
is (the only version of LDC I've ever used was an old MinGW-based 
one, so I don't know how the VS version finds the MS libraries), 
then you should only need to include the file name and it will 
use the one from the MS SDK.