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reply Jakob Praher <jp hapra.at> writes:
hi,

I'd like to use d for some kind of system progrmaming project within a 
company that has to support windows 64 bit (windows 2003+) espesially in 
a VS.Net environment (so to say MS toolchain). I don't think I am able 
to pursuade them to switch to a mingw od cygwin environment.

Has anybody of you used the dmd compiler in tandem with the VS.NET 
environment in a 64 bit environment.

So to say: For instance build a 64bit dll with d and then link them to a 
64 bit version of a MSVC application or PInvoke it using the CLR?

Are there some expierences regarding this setup? Pleas share them with me.

thanks in advance
-- Jakob
Mar 08 2007
next sibling parent Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> writes:
Jakob Praher wrote:

 hi,
 
 I'd like to use d for some kind of system progrmaming project within a
 company that has to support windows 64 bit (windows 2003+) espesially in
 a VS.Net environment (so to say MS toolchain). I don't think I am able
 to pursuade them to switch to a mingw od cygwin environment.
 
 Has anybody of you used the dmd compiler in tandem with the VS.NET
 environment in a 64 bit environment.
 
 So to say: For instance build a 64bit dll with d and then link them to a
 64 bit version of a MSVC application or PInvoke it using the CLR?
 
 Are there some expierences regarding this setup? Pleas share them with me.
 
 thanks in advance
 -- Jakob


DMD currently does not support 64-bit codegen.  Additionally, I highly
doubt that anything produced by MS' tools can be read by DMD.  It may
also be true vice-versa, but I've never had an opportunity to test.

	-- Daniel

-- 
Unlike Knuth, I have neither proven or tried the above; it may not even
make sense.

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Mar 08 2007
prev sibling next sibling parent reply janderson <askme me.com> writes:
Jakob Praher wrote:

 hi,
 
 I'd like to use d for some kind of system progrmaming project within a 
 company that has to support windows 64 bit (windows 2003+) espesially in 
 a VS.Net environment (so to say MS toolchain). I don't think I am able 
 to pursuade them to switch to a mingw od cygwin environment.
 
 Has anybody of you used the dmd compiler in tandem with the VS.NET 
 environment in a 64 bit environment.
 
 So to say: For instance build a 64bit dll with d and then link them to a 
 64 bit version of a MSVC application or PInvoke it using the CLR?
 
 Are there some expierences regarding this setup? Pleas share them with me.
 
 thanks in advance
 -- Jakob


I'm not sure about the 64-bit part (I assume its possible, DMD can 
certainly do 64-bit).  I think someone posted a little while ago how to 
use the MSVS linker to build DMD executables (I can't find the thread 
here).  I would search at bit longer however I've gotta run.

Also integration wise, people have done that before.  Check out the 
thread "D and MSVC .net 2002".

Hope that was helpful.
-Joel
Mar 08 2007
parent reply Jakob Praher <jakob.praher mindbreeze.com> writes:
I am afraid I cannot find a source for generating dmd 64bit object files. Is the
backend still worked on?

-- Jakob
Apr 12 2007
parent Johan Granberg <lijat.meREM OVEgmail.com> writes:
Jakob Praher wrote:


 I am afraid I cannot find a source for generating dmd 64bit object files.
 Is the backend still worked on?
 
 -- Jakob


As far as I know there presently is no way for dmd to generate 64bit code,
however the gdc compiler can (at least for linux) so you could start
looking here dgcc.sf.net .
Apr 12 2007
prev sibling parent Sean Kelly <sean f4.ca> writes:
Jakob Praher wrote:

 hi,
 
 I'd like to use d for some kind of system progrmaming project within a 
 company that has to support windows 64 bit (windows 2003+) espesially in 
 a VS.Net environment (so to say MS toolchain). I don't think I am able 
 to pursuade them to switch to a mingw od cygwin environment.
 
 Has anybody of you used the dmd compiler in tandem with the VS.NET 
 environment in a 64 bit environment.


No, though someone had a back-end that generated CLI code at one point. 
  Also, I was suddenly reminded of this this morning:

http://research.microsoft.com/phoenix/

It would take some work, but it might be interesting to see if the DMD 
front-end could be integrated with Phoenix as a shortcut to generating 
Win64 binaries.


Sean
Mar 08 2007