MingW compatibility

[Robert M. Münch]

On 2010-06-11 20:57:31 +0200, Nick Sabalausky said:

> In my experience, MSYS/Mingw are a PITA in the first place. After 
> numerous times mucking around with both it and apps that require it on 
> windows, I've become convinced that an app that requires Mingw on 
> windows is no more cross-platform than an app that requires wine on 
> Linux. But that's me. YMMV, of course.

I agree. I use it mostly to compile OS stuff from the Linux world on 
windows. For this it works pretty good.

The problem is that those projects are GCC centric, and DMC doesn't 
play this role very good.

My idea was to compile this stuff with MingW and statically link it 
with D later.

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