On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 17:12:11 +0100, FG wrote: > On 2015-02-01 at 12:29, ketmar wrote: >> the best thing, of course, is to kill that ancient toolchain altogether >> and switch to binutils, they are already working for mingw and they are >> free. and there is COFF writer already too. so only one little step is >> needed: drop dmc and build dmd with mingw. and with dmc all it's tools >> will go. >> >> besides, this will allow makefile unification, as alot of "posix.mak" >> can be reused for mingw builds. i did that myself while hunting for >> multithreading heisenbug. the side effect of switching to mingw was >> faster dmd.exe: compiling phobos took only 2/3 of time comparing to dmc >> version. > > What? How did you do that and what problems did you encounter? > Does it work with regular DMD/Druntime/Phobos or only with Aliced[1]? > > [1] I only saw it mentioned once in the forum. What exactly is it?
i only built dmd.exe with mingw, i wasn't invested any efforts to make dmd.exe itself work with binutils. but i believe that with "-m32mscoff" switch making dmd.exe using "ld.exe" and other tools will be trivial, as those using COFF object files. yet i'm not interested enough in windows to work on that, and i will not write a single line of code without it being preliminary approved by BOTH Walter and Andrei.
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