GDC Project page updated

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 12/03/2014 11:51, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> On 09/03/2014 12:26, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>> Am Sun, 9 Mar 2014 11:46:18 +0000
>> schrieb Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org>:
>>
>>> On Mar 5, 2014 5:00 PM, "Bruno Medeiros"
>>> <brunodomedeiros+dng at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 16/01/2014 16:45, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Updated the GDC Project page with some better information.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://gdcproject.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Also got started on a ProjectIdeas page, as the list of things
>>>>> that I'm currently keeping under my umbrella needs to start being
>>>>> distributed by anyone who wants to help out with the project.
>>>>>
>>>>> There's not just development work, so you can help out too!
>>>>>
>>>>> http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/ProjectIdeas
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Iain.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So, are there any plans to update the Windows binary releases?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Someone will have to work out how Daniel built and maintained the
>>> Mingw binaries. I'm not so sure that information was documented. :)
>>>
>>> Regards
>>
>> https://github.com/venix1/MinGW-GDC
>> Building is not the time-consuming part of the mingw port afaics, the
>> problem is that binutils, mingw, gmp,... patches need to be maintained
>> (or better: upstreamed).
>> We should really try to get at least the GDC patches merged though.
>>
>
> More out of curiosity, and trying to understand the GDC/MinGW/GCC
> internals a bit, what exactly is it that makes it hard to an automatic
> build script to produce binary releases for windows?
> You say there is patches that need to be applied to MinGW, is that part
> of the problem? Why not have a mingw fork?
>

Opened:
http://bugzilla.gdcproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116

Also, I'll be adding a bountysource bounty to this, (as soon as it shows 
up in bountysource)

-- 
Bruno Medeiros
https://twitter.com/brunodomedeiros