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[Vlad Levenfeld via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 at 01:24:35 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 01:07:03 +0000
> "Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d" <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 at 01:04:11 UTC, ketmar via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> > two days making dmd.exe work with Wine to write the simple 
>> > utility which i can write in two hours using MinGW 
>> > cross-compiler.
>> 
>> I've been using dmd with wine for a long time... I find it 
>> sometimes seems to deadlock, but when it does, I just ctrl+c 
>> and run it again. Mildly annoying but not a showstopper.
> for me it segfaults constantly. being unable to debug it i 
> first made
> it compilable with MinGW, and then found that root/async.c 
> is... well,
> the root of all problems. i don't even want to know how it 
> works and
> what it tries to accelerate; there is non-threaded version 
> there, so i
> just made my build use it and WOW! no more crashes. the most 
> painful
> task was to build the working dmd.exe with mingw.
>
> to be honest, i first tried to build it with visual studio, 
> thinking
> that it's something that dmc does wrong, and that alone took me 
> half of
> a day (vs build scripts aren't working, so i have to struggle 
> with that
> too in additional to vs itself). then i took a false start and 
> wasted
> another day. and then i stopped before trying to turn dmd into
> cross-compiler. ;-)

I had some nice experiment control/visualization software in D 
that was making good impressions (not that physicists really care 
about programming languages, but it ran fast, had a pleasant 
syntax and I could safely make major reconfigurations in really 
short timespans, which made people notice) but ran into a nasty 
bug in some National Instruments drivers for Linux (which NI 
doesn't appear to be too interested in fixing) and then wasn't 
able to build DMD git-head on 64-bit Windows 7 after a couple of 
weeks of trying. It was like a slow-motion train wreck.

So now I use LabView and hate everything about it.