Hi guys.
Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows? Or D won't support x64 at all?

Thanks

On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 at 12:45:08 UTC, Davita wrote:
> Hi guys.
> Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows? Or D won't support x64 at all?
>
> Thanks

As far as I know, optlink (linker used by dmd on windows) cannot output 64bit binaries, so until optlink gets upgraded (or until dmd switches to another linker, which I think all of us windows devs would really like to see) there will be no support for 64bit D applications on windows..

> Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows?

No.
object file format, librarian, linker, etc. are from the stone age and don't support x64.
Will take time.

On 11.04.2012 16:45, Davita wrote:
> Hi guys.
> Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows? Or D won't
> support x64 at all?
>
> Thanks

Given that there is x64 MinGW version of gdc that shouldn't be a problem?
(GDC is usually around one release behind though)

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky

On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 at 13:10:05 UTC, Trass3r wrote:
>> Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows?
>
> No.
> object file format, librarian, linker, etc. are from the stone age and don't support x64.
> Will take time.

Is there any roadmap/timeline when we should wait for x64? Is the work started about it at all?

Thanks

>> object file format, librarian, linker, etc. are from the stone age and don't support x64.
>> Will take time.
>
> Is there any roadmap/timeline when we should wait for x64? Is the work started about it at all?

No.
I totally forgot that you can use gdc though.

On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 at 12:45:08 UTC, Davita wrote:
> Hi guys.
> Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows? Or D won't support x64 at all?
>
> Thanks

https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads

> https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads

you are going to need this, too:

http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/

On 11.04.2012 14:45, Davita wrote:
> Hi guys.
> Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows? Or D won't
> support x64 at all?
>
> Thanks

You can compile and run LDC2 on Windows x64. The major problem is missing support for SEH64 exception handling in the used LLVM compiler framework.

https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc

Kai

On 11/04/12 14:45, Davita wrote:
> Hi guys.
> Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows? Or D won't
> support x64 at all?
>
> Thanks

It is a known blocker issue.
Nothing has been announced, but it will definitely happen.
It is surely far less work than adding 64-bit code generation to an ancient 32-bit back-end (which took Walter less than one year).