To build GDC for Windows 32/64

[Benjamin Thaut]

Am 28.08.2013 00:50, schrieb Ludovit Lucenic:
> On Tuesday, 27 August 2013 at 10:34:20 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>> Am 27.08.2013 09:17, schrieb Ludovit Lucenic:
>>> Hello out there,
>>>
>>> is anybody here, please, who would help me to compile/get a
>>> working GDC in Windows environments (both 32 and 64 bit,
>>> preferably 64 bit) ?
>>>
>>> I have studied all the GDC-stuff online, but I cannot figure out
>>> this mission :-)
>>> Maybe there is something I am missing, but in general the
>>> documentation seems to be obsolete and the provided packages of
>>> GDC I downloaded seem not to work for me out of the box.
>>>
>>> I would very much appreciate some sort of assistance.
>>> When success, I will update the Wiki on the topic.
>>>
>>> Thank you very much in advance, dear Dees.
>>>
>>> Ludovit
>>> skype: moondog82
>>
>> http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de/?p=71
>>
>> I don't know if this still works though.
>>
>> Kind Regards
>> Benjamin Thaut
>
> Thank you, Benjamin.
> It took me almost an hour to compile the GDC following your guidelines
> (on Dell:i7, 8G RAM, Win8-64), but ended with an error not being able to
> find GMP, which was actually in src folder. The build script must have
> looked somewhere else. I'll try tomorrow to fix it.
>
> Anyway, I have noticed the GDC repository https://github.com/venix1/GDC
> is used in your guidelines.
> What is the basic difference between this one and the one of Iain at
> https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC that seems to be updated more
> recently? Is it possible to build GDC on Windows from the Iain's
> repository's trunk at all?
>
> Cheers,
> Ludovit

The difference is, that the one at venix1 has some mingw patches. 
Without them a couple of features will be broken, like TLS.
I think it should be possible to build from directly from the offical 
GDC branch, but don't expect a working compiler then.

Kind Regards
Benjamin Thaut