Why so many theoretical discussions when ...

[Bill Baxter]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Mosfet <mosfet at anonymous.org> wrote:
> 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.

Which toolchain did you use?  Linux, Cygwin, or MinGW?

--bb