• Jason House (11/11) Aug 05 2008 I needed to generate a windows version of my project and discovered toda...
• Lester L. Martin II (4/17) Aug 05 2008 Can you all compile gcc for windows? If so, you just need to do a bit to...
• downs (3/16) Aug 07 2008 http://www.mingw.org/
• Jason House (2/20) Aug 07 2008 It's my understanding that you know mgen. You should talk to him about i...
• downs (2/23) Aug 07 2008 The above sites contain binaries. Build tools should not come into it.
• Jason House (5/33) Aug 07 2008 That is of course, the first thing to try. Sadly, the latest binary is ...
• downs (4/38) Aug 08 2008 I don't really know either; it's been ages since I needed this stuff (I ...

Jason House <jason.james.house gmail.com> writes:

I needed to generate a windows version of my project and discovered today
that I crash dmd when compiling my source.  Given the time crunch, I
figured it'd be easy to use GDC instead.  Boy was I wrong!

The gdc package for cygwin is way out of date, and the build steps are not
all too clear.  I don't have a windows box, but mgen on #d.tango was
extremely kind and tried very hard to get a functional gdc under windows. 
I believe the install steps were missing packages and there's some kind of
problem working with autogen with no easy workaround.

How can this process be fixed?  Is it a matter of better instructions? 
Should users just assume they can't use gdc on windows?  More frequent
releases from the gdc team?

Lester L. Martin II <lestermartin92 gmail.com> writes:

Can you all compile gcc for windows? If so, you just need to do a bit to setup
gdc to compile with it. Follow the directions listed below (never fails to
build gcc unless gdc has problems building), however also read the directions
at the gdc site because before you start configuring and stuff, you will have
to run the gdc script to make gdc become a compilation option.

Link is: http://www.aristeia.com/Misc/gcc4ForWindows_frames.html

Need more help? (I'm on IRC sometimes as lmartin92, but school's coming up so I
may be there less often)
Jason House Wrote:

 I needed to generate a windows version of my project and discovered today
 that I crash dmd when compiling my source.  Given the time crunch, I
 figured it'd be easy to use GDC instead.  Boy was I wrong!
 
 The gdc package for cygwin is way out of date, and the build steps are not
 all too clear.  I don't have a windows box, but mgen on #d.tango was
 extremely kind and tried very hard to get a functional gdc under windows. 
 I believe the install steps were missing packages and there's some kind of
 problem working with autogen with no easy workaround.
 
 How can this process be fixed?  Is it a matter of better instructions? 
 Should users just assume they can't use gdc on windows?  More frequent
 releases from the gdc team?

downs <default_357-line yahoo.de> writes:

Jason House wrote:
 I needed to generate a windows version of my project and discovered today
 that I crash dmd when compiling my source.  Given the time crunch, I
 figured it'd be easy to use GDC instead.  Boy was I wrong!
 
 The gdc package for cygwin is way out of date, and the build steps are not
 all too clear.  I don't have a windows box, but mgen on #d.tango was
 extremely kind and tried very hard to get a functional gdc under windows. 
 I believe the install steps were missing packages and there's some kind of
 problem working with autogen with no easy workaround.
 
 How can this process be fixed?  Is it a matter of better instructions? 
 Should users just assume they can't use gdc on windows?  More frequent
 releases from the gdc team?

http://www.mingw.org/

http://gdcwin.sourceforge.net/

Jason House <jason.james.house gmail.com> writes:

downs Wrote:

 Jason House wrote:
 I needed to generate a windows version of my project and discovered today
 that I crash dmd when compiling my source.  Given the time crunch, I
 figured it'd be easy to use GDC instead.  Boy was I wrong!
 
 The gdc package for cygwin is way out of date, and the build steps are not
 all too clear.  I don't have a windows box, but mgen on #d.tango was
 extremely kind and tried very hard to get a functional gdc under windows. 
 I believe the install steps were missing packages and there's some kind of
 problem working with autogen with no easy workaround.
 
 How can this process be fixed?  Is it a matter of better instructions? 
 Should users just assume they can't use gdc on windows?  More frequent
 releases from the gdc team?

 
 http://www.mingw.org/
 
 http://gdcwin.sourceforge.net/

It's my understanding that you know mgen. You should talk to him about it. He
spent something like 2 hours following the gcc/gdc instructions only to end in
failure. It was a known problem with autogen?

downs <default_357-line yahoo.de> writes:

Jason House wrote:
 downs Wrote:
 
 Jason House wrote:
 I needed to generate a windows version of my project and discovered today
 that I crash dmd when compiling my source.  Given the time crunch, I
 figured it'd be easy to use GDC instead.  Boy was I wrong!

 The gdc package for cygwin is way out of date, and the build steps are not
 all too clear.  I don't have a windows box, but mgen on #d.tango was
 extremely kind and tried very hard to get a functional gdc under windows. 
 I believe the install steps were missing packages and there's some kind of
 problem working with autogen with no easy workaround.

 How can this process be fixed?  Is it a matter of better instructions? 
 Should users just assume they can't use gdc on windows?  More frequent
 releases from the gdc team?

 http://www.mingw.org/

 http://gdcwin.sourceforge.net/

 
 It's my understanding that you know mgen. You should talk to him about it. He
spent something like 2 hours following the gcc/gdc instructions only to end in
failure. It was a known problem with autogen?

The above sites contain binaries. Build tools should not come into it.

Jason House <jason.james.house gmail.com> writes:

downs wrote:

 Jason House wrote:
 downs Wrote:
 
 Jason House wrote:
 I needed to generate a windows version of my project and discovered
 today
 that I crash dmd when compiling my source.  Given the time crunch, I
 figured it'd be easy to use GDC instead.  Boy was I wrong!

 The gdc package for cygwin is way out of date, and the build steps are
 not
 all too clear.  I don't have a windows box, but mgen on #d.tango was
 extremely kind and tried very hard to get a functional gdc under
 windows. I believe the install steps were missing packages and there's
 some kind of problem working with autogen with no easy workaround.

 How can this process be fixed?  Is it a matter of better instructions?
 Should users just assume they can't use gdc on windows?  More frequent
 releases from the gdc team?

 http://www.mingw.org/

 http://gdcwin.sourceforge.net/

 
 It's my understanding that you know mgen. You should talk to him about
 it. He spent something like 2 hours following the gcc/gdc instructions
 only to end in failure. It was a known problem with autogen?

 
 The above sites contain binaries. Build tools should not come into it.

That is of course, the first thing to try.  Sadly, the latest binary is a
year old.  In D terms, that's ancient.  We tried it anyway and it failed to
compile code that works with the ubuntu package of gdc.

I don't have a windows pc, so I can't talk intelligibly about this stuff.

downs <default_357-line yahoo.de> writes:

Jason House wrote:
 downs wrote:
 
 Jason House wrote:
 downs Wrote:

 Jason House wrote:
 I needed to generate a windows version of my project and discovered
 today
 that I crash dmd when compiling my source.  Given the time crunch, I
 figured it'd be easy to use GDC instead.  Boy was I wrong!

 The gdc package for cygwin is way out of date, and the build steps are
 not
 all too clear.  I don't have a windows box, but mgen on #d.tango was
 extremely kind and tried very hard to get a functional gdc under
 windows. I believe the install steps were missing packages and there's
 some kind of problem working with autogen with no easy workaround.

 How can this process be fixed?  Is it a matter of better instructions?
 Should users just assume they can't use gdc on windows?  More frequent
 releases from the gdc team?

 http://www.mingw.org/

 http://gdcwin.sourceforge.net/

 It's my understanding that you know mgen. You should talk to him about
 it. He spent something like 2 hours following the gcc/gdc instructions
 only to end in failure. It was a known problem with autogen?

 The above sites contain binaries. Build tools should not come into it.

 
 That is of course, the first thing to try.  Sadly, the latest binary is a
 year old.  In D terms, that's ancient.  We tried it anyway and it failed to
 compile code that works with the ubuntu package of gdc.
 
 I don't have a windows pc, so I can't talk intelligibly about this stuff.

I don't really know either; it's been ages since I needed this stuff (I
switched to Gentoo).

MSys/UnixUtils + MinGW was in my experience sufficient, at least once :), to
build GDC. But things might have changed since then.

Sorry for not being more helpful.