GDC on Windows

downs default_357-line at yahoo.de
Fri Aug 8 02:47:57 PDT 2008


Jason House wrote:
> downs wrote:
> 
>> 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 The gdc package for cygwin is way out of date, and the build steps are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.
> 
> That is of course, the first thing to try.  Sadly, the latest binary is a
> year old.  In D terms, that's ancient.  We tried it anyway and it failed to
> compile code that works with the ubuntu package of gdc.
> 
> I don't have a windows pc, so I can't talk intelligibly about this stuff.

I don't really know either; it's been ages since I needed this stuff (I switched to Gentoo).

MSys/UnixUtils + MinGW was in my experience sufficient, at least once :), to build GDC. But things might have changed since then.

Sorry for not being more helpful.



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