GDC on Windows

[Jason House]

downs wrote:

> Jason House wrote:
>> 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 The gdc package for cygwin is way out of date, and the build steps are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?
> 
> The above sites contain binaries. Build tools should not come into it.

That is of course, the first thing to try.  Sadly, the latest binary is a
year old.  In D terms, that's ancient.  We tried it anyway and it failed to
compile code that works with the ubuntu package of gdc.

I don't have a windows pc, so I can't talk intelligibly about this stuff.