Why so many theoretical discussions when ...

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Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>> Working on the dmd frontend within gdc isn't that bad at all.  The
>>>> instructions on how to compile gdc were understandable last time I tried
>>>> it (though admitedly I'd built gcc on more than one occasion prior to
>>>> being introduced to d).
>>> You're talking Linux, right?  On Linux it is supposedly not so
>>> difficult.  But the instructions are not so clear for Windows.
>>>
>>> --bb
>> Yes, on linux.  However, I suspect that building under cygwin is pretty
>> easy as well, but I haven't ever tried.
> 
> Could be.  I think I tried with MinGW and couldn't ever get it working.
> 
> --bb
It's not that difficult because I managed to do it and I am not an 
expert at all in compilation toolchain.
The question about GDC is more about who is working on it, it seems that 
only one developer is contributing (Mr Friedmann) and how it progress.