large Windows mingw64 project in C99 --- need ABI compatible D compiler

[NonNull]

On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 at 19:25:27 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 at 18:53:01 UTC, NonNull wrote:
>> Which D compiler should be used to be ABI compatible with 
>> mingw32? And which to be ABI compatible with mingw64?
>
> The natural choice for coupling mingw[64]-gcc would be GDC. 
> Especially wrt. ABI, gdc apparently doesn't have to do much by 
> itself, in sharp contrast to LDC. No idea where gdc's 
> MinGW[-w64] support is at though and whether you need more 
> recent D features not available in gdc.
> [...]

Thanks for the detailed information!

I see your point about gdc's ABI, but it seems gdc is not 
distributed for Windows at this juncture and I am looking for a 
simple way forward, so I will likely go with ldc2 with the option 
you suggested and see how it goes.

Thanks again!