Installing LDC on Windows

Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Tue Sep 9 03:26:38 PDT 2014


On Saturday, 6 September 2014 at 22:06:30 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 September 2014 at 16:36:38 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> Looks like mingw supports 3 types of exception handling. LDC 
>> usually tightly coupled with mingw version, you shouldn't try 
>> it blindly, but follow installation instructions instead.
>
> It's not really tightly coupled to the MinGW version per se. 
> What is required is Dwarf 2 EH and a working TLS 
> implementation. The latter is the reason for the "recent 
> version of mingw-w64" requirement, because I fixed the 
> implementation there a year ago or so. No idea if the mingw.org 
> people have gotten their act together since.

BTW, looks like there are official fresh dwarf builds: 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win32/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/4.9.1/threads-win32/dwarf/


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