GDC - who does what?

[Anders F Bjöšrklund]

Steve Teale wrote:
>>> Anders, Michael, Vincento, I have made a start on the GDC-newbie page I was talking about.
>>>
>>> It's at http://www.britseyeview.com/GDC-newbie.html
>>>
>>> Please have a look and see if you think it is worth pursuing.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Steve
>> It's the "GCC D Compiler", even if it sets version(GNU)...
>> This is partly due to it not being an official GNU project.
>> The GNU Pascal Compiler, however, _is_ an offical front end.
>> Although not included in the main, but http://gnu-pascal.de
>>
>> The reason why you need to "adjust" your compiler libraries
>> is because of the version mismatch, GCC 4.4.1 vs GCC 3.4.5
>> The GDC was compiled for gcc-3.4.5-20060117-3, available from
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/GCC%20Version%203/
>>
>> --anders
>>
>> BTW.
>> My name seems a bit wrong, you can use ö if it helps ?
>> (might be easier than gettting the page encoded as UTF-8...)
> 
> Oh dear, so I have to explain that to newbies! It's going to take me
> two days of research to understand what you are saying. Please bear
> with me.

OK, I'll try again:

* you have a typo on your page, should be "GDC (GCC D Compiler)"

* when installing MinGW, make sure to get GCC Version 3 as well

Slightly better ? :)


I just used the Automated MinGW Installer on Windows, was easiest:
http://mingw.org/wiki/HOWTO_Install_the_MinGW_GCC_Compiler_Suite
I also install MSYS because I prefer a real shell over a DOS prompt.
It's not really necessary, unless you want to use ./configure later.

The nicest thing about MinGW is otherwise that you don't need any
Windows in order to use it, but can build your .exe files from
your regular operating system. Haven't made any binaries since
DMD 1.00 (GDC 0.21) though, but it works well on Linux or Darwin.

--anders