On 08/17/2018 01:24 AM, Mike Franklin wrote: > On Thursday, 16 August 2018 at 17:06:27 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: > >> A review would be helpful. > > It looks fine to me, though, that's not saying much. If you need > someone to test something, contact me on Slack. > >> And more Windows dev-volunteers for upcoming features. > > To do what exactly?
Well from my point of view the most important outstanding Windows tasks are: - help to test, debug, and fix the experimental lld/mingw toolchain (https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#lld_mingw) Once this is ready for production use it would simplify the Windows installation and allowed us to drop optlink and OMF. - help Benjamin Thaut with the export feature This is intended to cover dllimport/dllexport, but in a single keyword without macros (more info https://dconf.org/2016/talks/thaut.html). It's a necessity for full DLL support on Windows and we also want to use explicitly exported symbols to speed up Posix binaries (by avoiding PLT indirections). - get a 64-bit VC dmd.exe into the release 64-bit builds should be fully CI-integrated (mostly already done via AppVeyor AFAIK). Integrate build script/makefile with existing Windows release build (https://github.com/dlang/installer/blob/f7ee5aeab79a800317d875b5ee2e34ec2ad8803c/create_dmd_release/build_all.d#L41-L43, and https://github.com/dlang/installer/blob/f7ee5aeab79a800317d875b5ee2e34ec2ad8803c/create_dmd_release/create_dmd_release.d#L444). I'd be happy to add anyone remotely interested in Windows-support to our #Windows channel on slack (https://dlang.slack.com/messages/C6D5FEJ78). It's unfortunately fairly quiet atm. -Martin
