On Saturday, 6 September 2014 at 16:36:38 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Looks like mingw supports 3 types of exception handling. LDC usually tightly coupled with mingw version, you shouldn't try it blindly, but follow installation instructions instead.
It's not really tightly coupled to the MinGW version per se. What is required is Dwarf 2 EH and a working TLS implementation. The latter is the reason for the "recent version of mingw-w64" requirement, because I fixed the implementation there a year ago or so. No idea if the mingw.org people have gotten their act together since.
That being said, it still makes sense to try a known good version first, as LDC exercises quite a large part of the compiler/runtime features, some of which aren't needed in more wide-spread use cases (for example native TLS).
David
