MingW compatibility

[Andrej Mitrovic]

Nick Sabalausky Wrote:

> "Robert M. Münch" <robert.muench at robertmuench.de> wrote in message 
> news:huu08d$1jm6$1 at digitalmars.com...
> > On 2010-06-11 14:27:27 +0200, Alex Makhotin said:
> >
> >> Robert M. Münch wrote:
> >>> On 2010-06-11 13:18:34 +0200, Alex Makhotin said:
> >>>
> >>>> Yes, libraries produced with mingw32 GCC link well with binaries 
> >>>> produced with DMD and I didn't notice runtime issues.
> >>>
> >>> Perfect! I start to like D more and more...
> >>>
> >>
> >> Of course I'm talking about dynamic linking. DLL should be made with the 
> >> mingw32 GCC, import library produced with implib tool which is then the 
> >> argument for the linker. Static linking didn't work for me.
> >
> > :-( And I talked about static linking...
> >
> > Getting linux based source-code compiled with DMC is quite hard. I use 
> > MSYS and MINGW to compile stuff on windows... not sure if using DMC 
> > instead of GCC will help.
> >
> > Hmm... that makes some things much more complicate.
> >
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 

The newer TDM project might be of help, they've made some Windows binaries for
both x86 and x64. (The MinGW installation has to be removed first, or at least the folder has to be renamed because GCC explicitly looks for a "MinGW" folder).

http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/