gdmd does not work on Windows

[Anders F Björklund]

Nicolay Korslund wrote:

>> It's included in the installer here:
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gdcwin
> 
> Thanks, I wasn't aware of gdcwin. It's a bit impractical that it
> isn't part of the normal gdc install though, and in any case I
> think Perl might be a bit of a heavy dependency just for building D
> programs, especially on Windows where Perl isn't something everyone
> has. >

There was a reimplementation of it in bash, but then again that isn't 
something that Windows users (without MinGW/Cygwin) has either...

So it's easier to just install the readily available Perl package.
The "gdmd.bat" script was created by running pl2bat on gdmd, BTW.

http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/win32/bin/pl2bat.pl.html


Maybe something awful like rewriting it in a compiled languge has to
be done (did that for the wxD shell scripts), to cut down on depends ?

On the other hand, I view both Bash and Perl as if not essential then
as least very nice features to help me survive a hostile environment :-)

Another alternative would be to avoid "gdmd", and use "gdc" instead...

--anders