D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, December 14, 2011 18:10:12 Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/14/2011 4:32 PM, Jakob Bornecrantz wrote:
> > One of the biggest problem right now is that I can't build
> > my project on Windows and is forced to cross compile it with GDC
> > from Linux. This stems from me having a mixed C & D project and
> > not getting the various compilers to get along (Both DMD & DMC
> > and GDC & GCC, would either not compile or produce broken
> > binaries). So making DMD work with the mingw toolchain on
> > Windows would be really appreciated (COFF support right?).
> 
> I cannot help with this without knowing what the specific problems are.

It sounds like the chief problem is the fact that dmd and dmc aren't 
compatible with the object file format that pretty much every other compiler on 
Windows uses. It's probably _the_ biggest complaint of the folks trying to use 
C with D on Windows.

- Jonathan M Davis