Anybody tried to get tango working with GDC under windows?

[Jacob Carlborg]

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Marius Muja wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been using gdc under linux for my project and now I'm trying to
>> port it to windows. I'm using tango and there seems to be no tango
>> distribution for windows that uses the gdc compiler
>> (gdcwin.sourceforge.net). Are there any issues with using tango with gdc
>> under windows?
>> I tried using dmd, but the performance of the generated code is about
>> twice as slow. More than that, my project contains matlab bindings (a
>> mex file) and the mex compiler didn't seem to like the object file
>> generated by dmd (I guess I'd have to configure mex to use dmc instead
>> of visual c++, which I don't know how easy it is to do).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Marius
> 
> Hi Marius,
> 
> I've been trying to find someone to test this for us, but there is no full
> distribution. Apparently it is rather difficult to get GDC on windows right
> due to the GCC versions available through Mingw. Cygwin is probably easier
> (maybe GDC is readily available there?) but may not be what you need,
> especially not if performance is your thing.
> 
> When GDC is ready though, I believe Tango should mostly work. There is an
> old unapplied patch in our patches dir that may be of relevance, but
> apparently it mostly fixed GDC ... If you try it out, I'd love to hear your
> experiences and eventual patches / bug reports.
> 
> Lars Ivar Igesund
> blog at http://larsivi.net
> DSource, #d.tango & #D: larsivi
> Dancing the Tango

What I can remember I had no problems with gdc on windows, just install 
mingw with gcc 3.4.5 (I think it was) and then install gdc. It works 
with Phobos but I never tried Tango. This was a while ago and it's also 
been a while since I used gdc on windows.