GtkD 2.0 released, Gtk+ 3 with D.

nazriel spam at dzfl.pl
Sat Oct 6 06:06:39 PDT 2012


On Thursday, 4 October 2012 at 21:25:09 UTC, Mike Wey wrote:
> On 10/04/2012 01:05 PM, JN wrote:
>> Why does a Windows version require building anyway? Building 
>> stuff is
>> for Linux people, because they love to hunt dependencies and 
>> stuff. On
>> Windows you should be able to unzip an archive or use an 
>> installer and
>> have two directories - include files and compiled .lib/.a/.dll 
>> libraries
>> ready to include into your project. Trying to avoid it is just 
>> trouble,
>> it takes a lot of time to compile any D library and even GDC 
>> has no
>> binary releases, so that's another time spent on hunting libs.
>
> The library usually needs to be rebuild when there is e new 
> conpiler release,
> And a library build with one D compiler cant be used with any 
> of the other compilers.

Yea it's damn PITA


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