Re: Windows integration [was: Re: There really needs to be some moderation]

2017-06-22 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 22 June 2017 at 05:59:05 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 21:47:48 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: [snip] Windows has been a bit of a pain, but mostly from the native code library side. It should be easy to install google snappy right? On Linux it is. On Windows,

Re: Windows integration [was: Re: There really needs to be some moderation]

2017-06-22 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 21:47:48 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: [snip] Windows has been a bit of a pain, but mostly from the native code library side. It should be easy to install google snappy right? On Linux it is. On Windows, not so much... And that's just one library. vcpkg is making

Re: Windows integration [was: Re: There really needs to be some moderation]

2017-06-18 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 22:24:47 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Yes, but suppose you want to build a C library like Google snappy, nanomsg or leveldb. It's a bit of a pain on Windows. Well, that's kinda what I mean by intermediate developer pain... but there's also lessneed to build libraries

Re: Windows integration [was: Re: There really needs to be some moderation]

2017-06-18 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 22:15:41 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 21:47:48 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Windows has been a bit of a pain, but mostly from the native code library side. I've found D on Windows to be very easy for myself and for my end users... but not for

Re: Windows integration [was: Re: There really needs to be some moderation]

2017-06-18 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 21:47:48 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Windows has been a bit of a pain, but mostly from the native code library side. I've found D on Windows to be very easy for myself and for my end users... but not for intermediate developers. For myself, I just set up the

Re: Windows integration [was: Re: There really needs to be some moderation]

2017-06-18 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 21:37:13 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 21:06:07 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Is it possible to use lld on Windows? I never tried it myself. https://lld.llvm.org/ Says they don't support debug info (debugger being another dependency on

Windows integration [was: Re: There really needs to be some moderation]

2017-06-18 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 21:06:07 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Is it possible to use lld on Windows? I never tried it myself. https://lld.llvm.org/ Says they don't support debug info (debugger being another dependency on VisualStudio). But yes, different toolchains (mingw, lld) and cross