GDC on Windows
Jason House
jason.james.house at gmail.com
Thu Aug 7 08:49:04 PDT 2008
downs Wrote:
> Jason House wrote:
> > I needed to generate a windows version of my project and discovered today
> > that I crash dmd when compiling my source. Given the time crunch, I
> > figured it'd be easy to use GDC instead. Boy was I wrong!
> >
> > The gdc package for cygwin is way out of date, and the build steps are not
> > all too clear. I don't have a windows box, but mgen on #d.tango was
> > extremely kind and tried very hard to get a functional gdc under windows.
> > I believe the install steps were missing packages and there's some kind of
> > problem working with autogen with no easy workaround.
> >
> > How can this process be fixed? Is it a matter of better instructions?
> > Should users just assume they can't use gdc on windows? More frequent
> > releases from the gdc team?
>
> http://www.mingw.org/
>
> http://gdcwin.sourceforge.net/
It's my understanding that you know mgen. You should talk to him about it. He spent something like 2 hours following the gcc/gdc instructions only to end in failure. It was a known problem with autogen?
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