• Bruce Adams <tortoise_y4 yeah.who.co.uk> Oct 08 2007
• Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> Oct 08 2007
• Bruce Adams <tortoise_74 yeah.who.co.uk> Oct 08 2007
• Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> Oct 08 2007

Bruce Adams <tortoise_y4 yeah.who.co.uk> writes:

Walter Bright Wrote:

 Bruce Adams wrote:
 I was going to post a similar question. I do most of my development
 via gcc. I'm only using DMD on windows rather than gdc because its
 more reliable (relative to the current state of gdc on cygwin). I
 have a lot of current C++ code working under gcc which is one thing
 holding me back from adopting D wholesale. A way of supporting gcc
 style name mangling as opposed to M$ would be very useful.


 Supporting gcc name mangling isn't enough, as dmd on Windows doesn't 
 generate ELF and is incompatible with gcc on many levels.
 
 A more practical approach is to recompile your C++ source using DMC++.


I doubt it is that practical. Though perhaps worth a try. gcc its well
integrated with my build system and I keep my code portable between windows and
linux. It sounds like I'm out of luck there :(.
It was hard enough to persuade myself to try dmd when gdc didn't work for me. I
know gcc's interface backwards. Jumping to another vendor (even you :-) is just
a little step too far for me. Not to mention having to swap gdb for ddbg or
whatever it is. I might try porting something simple as an exercise in
improving the portability of some code just to see what happens. As Captain
Oates said, I may be some time...

Bruce.

Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:

Bruce Adams wrote:
 Walter Bright Wrote:
 A more practical approach is to recompile your C++ source using
 DMC++.


 I doubt it is that practical. Though perhaps worth a try. gcc its
 well integrated with my build system and I keep my code portable
 between windows and linux. It sounds like I'm out of luck there :(. 
 It was hard enough to persuade myself to try dmd when gdc didn't work
 for me. I know gcc's interface backwards. Jumping to another vendor
 (even you :-) is just a little step too far for me. Not to mention
 having to swap gdb for ddbg or whatever it is. I might try porting
 something simple as an exercise in improving the portability of some
 code just to see what happens. As Captain Oates said, I may be some
 time...
 
 Bruce.


When gdc folds this in, then gdc/g++ should also work. I don't know what 
other issues there are with gdc.

Bruce Adams <tortoise_74 yeah.who.co.uk> writes:

Walter Bright Wrote:

 Bruce Adams wrote:
 Walter Bright Wrote:
 A more practical approach is to recompile your C++ source using
 DMC++.


 I doubt it is that practical. Though perhaps worth a try. gcc its
 well integrated with my build system and I keep my code portable
 between windows and linux. It sounds like I'm out of luck there :(. 
 It was hard enough to persuade myself to try dmd when gdc didn't work
 for me. I know gcc's interface backwards. Jumping to another vendor
 (even you :-) is just a little step too far for me. Not to mention
 having to swap gdb for ddbg or whatever it is. I might try porting
 something simple as an exercise in improving the portability of some
 code just to see what happens. As Captain Oates said, I may be some
 time...
 
 Bruce.


 When gdc folds this in, then gdc/g++ should also work. I don't know what 
 other issues there are with gdc.


I started out trying to use gdc/cygwin and gave up. The general advice I was
given was don't do it use dmd. Using gdc on windows puts me in a small minority
(anyone else tried it, raise your hand now). Certainly my brief experince was
that gdc is too broken on cygwin to use. In my first day of using D I found two
compiler bugs one in DMD one in gdc. The one in DMD has a workaround the one in
gdc was fatal but I note it has been fixed so I could try again. Finding
compiler bugs with "hello world" programs is not a good sign.

Bruce.

Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:

Bruce Adams wrote:
 I started out trying to use gdc/cygwin and gave up. The general
 advice I was given was don't do it use dmd. Using gdc on windows puts
 me in a small minority (anyone else tried it, raise your hand now).
 Certainly my brief experince was that gdc is too broken on cygwin to
 use. In my first day of using D I found two compiler bugs one in DMD
 one in gdc. The one in DMD has a workaround the one in gdc was fatal
 but I note it has been fixed so I could try again. Finding compiler
 bugs with "hello world" programs is not a good sign.


I agree that running into compiler bugs always sucks, but please be sure 
and report them to bugzilla if they aren't already there. Otherwise, 
they'll get forgotten and never fixed.