Win64 MinGW

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 15.04.2011 19:38, schrieb dsimcha:
> I've just had the unexpected misfortune of having my work computer break, and
> then the unexpected fortune of being told I'm getting an 8 core with 24 gigs
> of RAM to replace it.  However, I strongly prefer Windows as my desktop OS.
> Therefore, I've started caring a lot more lately about 64-bit Windows support.
> 
> How far away are we from getting a reasonably stable/usable MinGW GDC for
> Win64?  I've noticed that GDC for Linux has made tremendous strides lately and
> almost "just works" for the code I've been testing it on.  (Thanks to Iain for
> his hard work.)  I've also noticed that GDC has been ported to Windows using
> MinGW (thanks to Daniel Green), but as far as I can tell it only supports 32.
>  Are there any major, fundamental roadblocks to 64 support or are we a few bug
> fixes away?

(I don't know anything specific, the following is just a guess)

Probably Phobos would need a lot of fixes, because I guess everything in
version(Win32) blocks will have to be rewritten?
Probably new Versions ("Win" and "Win64") will be needed: "Win" for
generic stuff that works on win32 and win64 and Win64 for win64 specific
stuff.

But this is just a guess, I'm not really familiar with Windows programming.

Cheers,
- Daniel