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On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 at 01:07:04 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 at 01:04:11 UTC, ketmar via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> two days making dmd.exe work with Wine to write the simple 
>> utility which i can write in two hours using MinGW 
>> cross-compiler.
>
> I've been using dmd with wine for a long time... I find it 
> sometimes seems to deadlock, but when it does, I just ctrl+c 
> and run it again. Mildly annoying but not a showstopper.

I never understood why you guys use DMD on wine. Theres a DMD for 
linux...

Is it because you want to develop your windows programs without 
having to run a full virtual machine?