Am 15.04.2011 19:38, schrieb dsimcha: > I've just had the unexpected misfortune of having my work computer break, and > then the unexpected fortune of being told I'm getting an 8 core with 24 gigs > of RAM to replace it. However, I strongly prefer Windows as my desktop OS. > Therefore, I've started caring a lot more lately about 64-bit Windows support. > > How far away are we from getting a reasonably stable/usable MinGW GDC for > Win64? I've noticed that GDC for Linux has made tremendous strides lately and > almost "just works" for the code I've been testing it on. (Thanks to Iain for > his hard work.) I've also noticed that GDC has been ported to Windows using > MinGW (thanks to Daniel Green), but as far as I can tell it only supports 32. > Are there any major, fundamental roadblocks to 64 support or are we a few bug > fixes away?
(I don't know anything specific, the following is just a guess) Probably Phobos would need a lot of fixes, because I guess everything in version(Win32) blocks will have to be rewritten? Probably new Versions ("Win" and "Win64") will be needed: "Win" for generic stuff that works on win32 and win64 and Win64 for win64 specific stuff. But this is just a guess, I'm not really familiar with Windows programming. Cheers, - Daniel