Win64 MinGW

[Daniel Green]

On 4/15/2011 1:38 PM, dsimcha wrote:

> 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?
That was something I was going to look into this weekend.  I've 
mentioned before I chose to have GDC/MinGW releases use the TDM build 
scripts because it supports both 32 and 64 bit compilers.

> Interesting.  This is good in that it's something I could help out with.  I have
> neither the time nor the desire to get deep into compiler implementations, but I
> already know the Phobos codebase pretty well and could fix up these issues.
> However, I would need a reasonably working barebones compiler to test my work.
Your help would be welcomed.  I have 32 bit Windows which limits the 
testing I can do.