GDC on Windows

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Jason House wrote:
> downs Wrote:
> 
>> Jason House wrote:
>>> I needed to generate a windows version of my project and discovered today
>>> that I crash dmd when compiling my source.  Given the time crunch, I
>>> figured it'd be easy to use GDC instead.  Boy was I wrong!
>>>
>>> The gdc package for cygwin is way out of date, and the build steps are not
>>> all too clear.  I don't have a windows box, but mgen on #d.tango was
>>> extremely kind and tried very hard to get a functional gdc under windows. 
>>> I believe the install steps were missing packages and there's some kind of
>>> problem working with autogen with no easy workaround.
>>>
>>> How can this process be fixed?  Is it a matter of better instructions? 
>>> Should users just assume they can't use gdc on windows?  More frequent
>>> releases from the gdc team?
>> http://www.mingw.org/
>>
>> http://gdcwin.sourceforge.net/
> 
> It's my understanding that you know mgen. You should talk to him about it. He spent something like 2 hours following the gcc/gdc instructions only to end in failure. It was a known problem with autogen?

The above sites contain binaries. Build tools should not come into it.