Trying to generate gdc for mingw-w64(x86 and x64) using msys2

[Vincent R via D.gnu]

On Saturday, 7 November 2015 at 14:13:36 UTC, Vincent R wrote:
> On Saturday, 7 November 2015 at 13:43:52 UTC, Vincent R wrote:
>> On Friday, 6 November 2015 at 18:15:06 UTC, Vincent R wrote:
>>> On Friday, 6 November 2015 at 10:07:53 UTC, Vincent R wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Ok I was able to generate a gdc compiler(x64) so now I need 
>>> to test it and I will keep you informed.
>>
>> It doesn't work...
>> $ gdc main.d
>> gdc.exe: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory
>
> Maybe it has something to do with missing files or something 
> like that because when I run the gdc binary from the output 
> folder (and before being packaged) I don'' have this error but 
> on the other hand nothing happens:
>
> $ export 
> PATH=~/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-gcc/src/mingw64/bin:$PATH
> $ cd 
> "C:\Developer\cygwin64\home\Vincent\projects\dlang\BonjourProvider\src"
> $ gdc main.d -o toto.exe
> $ ls toto.exe
> ls: cannot access toto.Exe: No such file or directory
>
> ok so end of story I am going back to c++, I already lost too 
> much time with this.

I tried a last time before and I managed to make it work not 
completely but at least I can see a hello world application on 
the console:


$ gdc -o main.exe main.d
$ ./main.exe
Hello D-World!

It's late now but I have some questions and feedback about it.