GDC release 0.24

[Jason House]

Anders F Björklund Wrote:

> Jason House wrote:
> 
> >> Ready-to-run packages for MinGW and Xcode have been posted at:
> >> http://gdcwin.sourceforge.net and http://gdcmac.sourceforge.net
> > 
> > Potentially stupid question...  How do I use the MinGW package with tango?
> > 
> > gdc *.d -I $TANGOIMPORTDIR
> > Error: no property 'toUtf8' for type 'object.TypeInfo'
> > ...
> 
> Not stupid question, the MinGW GDC package will overwrite your
> object.d and libgphobos.a - so you probably have to reinstall
> Tango. The patch for SVN 139 should be valid for GDC 0.24 too.

I'm not familiar with the patch for sVN 139.  Can you expand on this?


> The "easiest" would probably be to save a copy of those two
> before doing the upgrade, and flip them back after it's done.
> But the package doesn't do this for you automatically, sadly.

Actually, I was using dmd prior to this.  I don't have a previously working copy of gdc with tango.