Are there any GDC builds available for Windows?

Preetpal preetpal.sohal at gmail.com
Sun Apr 11 07:20:35 UTC 2021


On Thursday, 8 April 2021 at 19:10:03 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 April 2021 at 02:29:41 UTC, Preetpal wrote:
>> On Thursday, 8 April 2021 at 02:22:41 UTC, Preetpal wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 8 April 2021 at 02:18:13 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, 8 April 2021 at 02:05:56 UTC, Preetpal wrote:
>>>>> gdc.exe: fatal error: cannot execute 'd21': CreateProcess: 
>>>>> No such file or directory
>>>>> compilation terminated.
>>>>
>>>> The PATH needs to include the normal mingw64 bin path as 
>>>> well as the path for gdc.
>>>
>>> Well I do have mingw64 on my path, but his build does not 
>>> work. I might try to build GDC from source at a later time to 
>>> test the release.
>>
>> To be clear, I tried it with mingw64 on my path and with a 
>> clean environment (running command prompt without mingw64 on 
>> my path).
>
> These are the steps you need to follow:
>
> 1. Download MSYS2 (https://www.msys2.org/) or "choco install 
> msys2" if you have chocolatey
>
> 2. Start msys2 and paste the following:
> wget 
> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Imperatorn/7d37f22140ea5b2c80dee5a86ffff2a3/raw/761ea945c28586f5c6bbc2e09d93a27383701da8/build.sh && ./build.sh
>
> 3. Wait :)
>
> 4. Pray...
>
> 5. Celebrate!? The build script has hopefully run and will open 
> the bin directory with explorer

The build script ran successfully! :)

I tried it out with a few console programs and a program I made a 
forum post about earlier 
(https://gist.github.com/preetpalS/d2482d6ec91eb8147e6cff43ab197ed5) and everything was working when compiling with GDC on Windows.


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