Am 14.11.2010, 20:30 Uhr, schrieb dsimcha <dsim...@yahoo.com>:
== Quote from Daniel Gibson (metalcae...@gmail.com)'s article
dsimcha schrieb:
> I'm thinking of working on getting GDC MinGW binaries up somewhere. I
> understand the MinGW build process is highly non-trivial, and I'm
trying to
> decide if it's worth the effort. What is the status of MinGW for
64-bit
> Windows? Is there any theoretical reason why 64-bit GDC for MinGW
shouldn't
> work? If not, then I'll try to make it work.
It may be a good start to build 32bit Windows binaries for GDC (and
maybe
provide an installer or something) and, with that experience, try to
get 64bit
Windows binaries.
I don't know if there's any reason why 64bit Windows binaries shouldn't
work.
To clarify: I'm not willing to put much work into getting Win32 working
b/c DMD
already works well for Win32, whereas DMD for Win64 isn't happening for
a while
even after DMD for Linux64 is out because of linker issues.
Building an 32bit windows GDC isn't that complicated, I built several
versions of gdc according to this
http://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/MinGWCompile howto and it worked
well. 64bit could be more complicated: You need mingw-w64 and there are no
gdc build instructions for that yet (I guess most of the 32bit
instructions applies to 64bit as well though). I also don't know how
complete the 64bit mingw port is. And the website states "However, when
compiling for 64-bit we recommend using at least gcc-4.5.1 to take
advantage of the many improvements and bug-fixes" but gdc only supports
gcc up to 4.4.x.
--
Johannes Pfau
