What's up with GDC?

[Johan Engelen via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 12 June 2016 at 03:11:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 June 2016 at 01:51:05 UTC, Joerg Joergonson wrote:
>>
>> DMD works fine BTW. GDC and LDC should be a drop in 
>> replacement. Not a totally new setup that has it's own set of 
>> problems. I'm sure I'm not the only one put off by the 
>> compounding of problems when using D.
>
> [...]
> IIRC, LDC does recognize some DMD switches, and there is a tool 
> called GDMD that allows you to invoke GDC as if you were 
> invoking DMD, but you can't expect the compilers to be drop-in 
> replacements for each other.

LDC has LDMD2 that accepts DMD-like parameters.

LDMD2 calls LDC2. Compiler options not recognized by LDMD2 are 
passed straight to LDC2, so you can pass LDC-specific options to 
LDMD2 too.