Questions about windows support

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Mon Feb 20 15:00:14 PST 2012


On Monday, February 20, 2012 15:00:28 H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 05:25:28PM -0500, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Monday, February 20, 2012 22:36:49 Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> > > 1) Is there a chance that dmd will support 64 bit on windows any
> > > time soon? What are the issues currently with 64 bit support on
> > > windows? (optlink? backend?)
> > 
> > Neither support 64-bit. So, the changes required to the toolchain are
> > _far_ greater for 64-bit Windows than the Posix OSes. It'll come
> > eventually, but probably not for a while.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Does gdc support 64-bit? AFAIK it should, since it uses the gcc backend.

As I understand it, it does, but I've never used it.

- Jonathan M Davis


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