Suggestion: Build windows DMD with MSVC

Manu turkeyman at gmail.com
Fri May 31 19:15:46 PDT 2013


On 1 June 2013 12:02, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:

> Manu:
>
>
>  Building DMD with MSVC results in a compiler that runs MUCH MUCH faster.
>> In the interest of making DMD releases as fast as possible, this should be
>> standardised.
>>
>
> How much faster?
> And how much time does it take to compile DMD itself? I compile DMD almost
> every day, so I am interested in keeping this time quite low.
>
> (On Windows I use G++ v.4.8, isn't it good enough to compile DMD, instead
> of MSVC?)
>

Are the releases not built with DMC? Last time I tried to build DMD, it was
configured to use DMC by default.
I'm sure GCC would also be fine.
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