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D.gnu - Win64/MinGW

reply dsimcha <dsimcha yahoo.com> writes:
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.
Nov 14 2010
parent reply Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes gmail.com> writes:
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.
Nov 14 2010
next sibling parent reply dsimcha <dsimcha yahoo.com> writes:
== Quote from Daniel Gibson (metalcaedes 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.
Nov 14 2010
parent "Johannes Pfau" <spam example.com> writes:
Am 14.11.2010, 20:30 Uhr, schrieb dsimcha <dsimcha yahoo.com>:


 == Quote from Daniel Gibson (metalcaedes 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
Nov 15 2010
prev sibling parent reply =?UTF-8?B?QW5kZXJzIEYgQmrDtnJrbHVuZA==?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
 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.


Building GDC MinGW binaries wasn't _that_ complicated before,
the only trick* was making relocatable (away from C:\MinGW)...

Mostly ./configure && make, after all the patching was done ?
Like this: http://gdcwin.sourceforge.net/gcc-3.4.5-build.sh

--anders

* 
http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php?server=news.digitalmars.com&group=D.gnu&artnum=2252
Nov 16 2010
parent reply Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:
== Quote from Anders F Björklund (afb algonet.se)'s article

 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.


 Building GDC MinGW binaries wasn't _that_ complicated before,
 the only trick* was making relocatable (away from C:\MinGW)...
 Mostly ./configure && make, after all the patching was done ?
 Like this: http://gdcwin.sourceforge.net/gcc-3.4.5-build.sh
 --anders
 *


http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php?server=news.digitalmars.com&group=D.gnu&artnum=2252

As far as I'm aware, for GCC4 on MinGW, you need to build MPFR and GMP first to
link against the compiler, else it just won't run. I'd be interested to know if
someone has tried building the above way though.

Regards
Iain
Nov 16 2010
next sibling parent =?UTF-8?B?QW5kZXJzIEYgQmrDtnJrbHVuZA==?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
Iain Buclaw wrote:

 Mostly ./configure && make, after all the patching was done ?
 Like this: http://gdcwin.sourceforge.net/gcc-3.4.5-build.sh


 As far as I'm aware, for GCC4 on MinGW, you need to build MPFR and GMP first to
 link against the compiler, else it just won't run. I'd be interested to know if
 someone has tried building the above way though.


I think an updated build script (for gcc-4.2.1-sjlj-2) is at:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/MinGW/BaseSystem/GCC/Version4/Previous%20Testing_%20gcc-4.2.1-sjlj%20-2/gcc-4.2.1-build-sjlj-2.sh

All I changed the previous time was to remove Fortran/Ada/etc:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/MinGW/BaseSystem/GCC/Version3/Previous%20Release_%20gcc-3.4.5-20060117-1/gcc-3.4.5-build.sh

From:
	--host=mingw32
	--prefix=/mingw
	--enable-languages=c,c++,f77,ada,objc,java
To:
	--host=i386-mingw32
	--prefix=/gdc
	--enable-languages=c,c++,d

And wrapped gdmd with pl2bat, to avoid having to use the .pl extension.
Then the installer was made with NSIS. (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/)

--anders
Nov 16 2010
prev sibling parent =?UTF-8?B?QW5kZXJzIEYgQmrDtnJrbHVuZA==?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
Iain Buclaw wrote:

 As far as I'm aware, for GCC4 on MinGW, you need to build MPFR and GMP first to
 link against the compiler, else it just won't run.


Seems like it was changed in GCC 4.3.0. For GCC 4.2.1, you only needed
to include MPFR and GMP if you were building the Fortran frontend...

Easiest way to do it seems to be to symlink "mpfr" and "gmp" into the 
source tree, much like GDC is being symlinked into "gcc/d" already ?

 From looking at http://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/MinGWCompile and
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/Cross%20Win32%20and%20Win64%20compiler

--anders
Nov 16 2010