gdcwin for linking with Visual Studio libs?

[Bill Baxter]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
>> Unfortunately I'm not 100% aware of the options that David
>> used to create the MinGW builds of GDC, on the dgcc page. :-(
> 
> Regarding:
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dgcc/gdc-0.19-mingw.tar.bz2
> 
> It says "3.4.5 (mingw special) (gdc 0.19, using dmd 0.162)",
> so I think it is built from MinGW GCC 3.4.5-20060117-1 too ?
> 
> 
> BTW: I'm planning to do an "experimental" build of GCC 4.0.3 for
> MinGW, as it seems that all patches have been included upstream ?
> 
> Originally I had planned to do this with GDC 0.20, but now I have
> no idea when/if this will be released ? (ditto with MinGW GCC 4.0)
> 
> So for now it would have to use the "unstable" SVN version of GDC,
> and include the C/C++ compilers for GCC as well as the D compiler.
> 
> Not planning to do any builds for Cygwin (gdcwin) or Darwin (gdcmac),
> since the aim is to be as close to the MinGW/Xcode GCC as possible.
> 

Uh, I don't know much about MinGW/GCC.  Should I be excited about all that?

---bb