libgmp-3.dll missing from windows binary release

[Kapps]

On Monday, 19 March 2012 at 10:57:13 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 19 March 2012 10:59, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 17 March 2012 21:37, Andrej Mitrovic 
>> <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/17/12, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Did find that one, but now missing libppl_c-4.dll
>>> > This is a bit silly. A binary toolchain needs to have these 
>>> > in the
>>> archive.
>>> > No point if you can't run it.
>>>
>>> I think I've had the same issues before because I've 
>>> installed TDM x86
>>> instead of the TDM x64 (labeled "experimental" in setup) . 
>>> Could that
>>> be the issue?
>>>
>>> The GDC I've used is:
>>> gcc-4.6.1-tdm64-1-gdc-232cd89d90b4-20120128.7z
>>>
>>> The TDM setup:
>>> tdm64-gcc-4.6.1.exe
>>>
>>> libgmp-3.dll is then installed to
>>> MinGW64\libexec\gcc\x86_64-w64-mingw32\4.6.1\ (and so is
>>> libppl_c-4.dll)
>>>
>>
>> Okay, well I got that package, and it does seem to have the 
>> full list of
>> dll's I need (there were about 5 more), but gdc still won't 
>> work:
>> > gdc main.d
>> gdc: fatal error: -fuse-linker-plugin, but liblto_plugin-0.dll 
>> not
>> found compilation terminated.
>>
>> that dll was in there too, and it is certainly present in my 
>> path, but it
>> continues to complain... :/
>>
>
> Okay, I managed to make it work by just transplanting the whole 
> gdc
> distribution directly into a functioning MinGW64 installation. 
> There must
> have been weird relative pathing built into the tools, so it 
> didn't find
> the DLL's even though they were present in the path.
>
> I really think the next binary GDC release should carefully 
> have all those
> DLL's included, so it actually like, works.
> I'd say the point of a binary release is for windows users who 
> don't want
> to know anything about linux or gcc toolchain issues can just 
> use it and
> get to work :)

Agreed. I've tried a couple of times to get GDC working, but 
every time I've given up simply because hunting down numerous 
libraries (which sometimes error themselves or need additional 
libraries themselves) is really not reasonable just to try a new 
compiler. If GDC was as simple to use as DMD, there would be many 
more Windows users.