DMD on WIndows 10

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jul 31 21:25:05 PDT 2015


On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 22:02:13 UTC, Paul D Anderson wrote:
> I'm waiting to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 to avoid 
> the inevitable just-released bugs, but does anyone have any 
> info about D on Windows 10? Has anyone tried it?

We probably should have done more testing on it, but at least in 
theory, programs compiled on at least Windows 7 or 8 should work 
on 10. They haven't done as good a job with it in recent years, 
but backwards compatibility is kind of Microsoft's thing and part 
of why many folks use Windows.

But regardless, if you find bugs in dmd or Phobos or anything of 
the sort which show up specifically on Windows 10, please report 
them: https://issues.dlang.org

> p.s. Please don't tell me how much better your favorite 
> operating system is than Windows. Thank you. :)

Wait, what if someone's favorite OS _was_ Windows. If they 
started talking about how much better Windows was than Windows, 
would that create some kind of paradox? ;)

You know, it would be _really_ cool if there were an OS out there 
that was fully compliant with both the POSIX standard and 
ecosystem and the Win32 API such that you could run KDE, gnome, 
bash, zsh, etc. on it just like on Linux/FreeBSD/etc. _and_ run 
Windows programs on it - all as native applications. A total pipe 
dream really, but _man_ would that be cool...

- Jonathan M Davis


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