SIMD on Windows

Jonathan Dunlap jadit2 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 21 21:28:56 PDT 2013


On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 23:04:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/21/2013 3:43 PM, Jonathan Dunlap wrote:
>> In D 2.063.2 on Windows 7:
>> Error: SIMD vector types not supported on this platform
>>
>> Should I file a bug for this or is this currently on a 
>> roadmap? I'm SUPER
>> excited to get into SIMD development with D. :D
>
> It's not a bug, and there are currently no plans to support 
> SIMD on Win32. However, it is supported for Win64 compilations.
>
> You can, however, file an enhancement request on Bugzilla for 
> it.

How do you compile for Win64? The only package for Windows I see 
is i386 which doesn't seem to support Win64 offhand... does the 
compiler require a flag?

(yes, I'm on a Win64 OS/system)


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