I'm trying out LDC for the first time (0.12.1).
I understand a recent version of mingw-w64 is required. I was looking at: http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/download.php
and I was wondering if the Cygwin versions are good? They seem recent enough (based on GCC 4.8.2?), but they don't support SEH and C11/C++11 threading AFAIK. Is that an issue for LDC?

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Hi Bruno!

On Wednesday, 5 March 2014 at 13:50:43 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> I'm trying out LDC for the first time (0.12.1).
> I understand a recent version of mingw-w64 is required. I was looking at: http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/download.php
> and I was wondering if the Cygwin versions are good? They seem recent enough (based on GCC 4.8.2?), but they don't support SEH and C11/C++11 threading AFAIK. Is that an issue for LDC?

Even if a recent mingw-w64 package is required, LDC is only supported on 32 bit. You can use the version mentioned in the wiki (http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_on_MinGW_x86) - this one is known to work. (Every newer build should work, too.)

SEH support and C11/C++11 threading are not yet relevant.

Regards,
Kai

On Wednesday, 5 March 2014 at 17:25:26 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi Bruno!
>
> On Wednesday, 5 March 2014 at 13:50:43 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> I'm trying out LDC for the first time (0.12.1).
>> I understand a recent version of mingw-w64 is required. I was looking at: http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/download.php
>> and I was wondering if the Cygwin versions are good? They seem recent enough (based on GCC 4.8.2?), but they don't support SEH and C11/C++11 threading AFAIK. Is that an issue for LDC?
>
> Even if a recent mingw-w64 package is required, LDC is only supported on 32 bit. You can use the version mentioned in the wiki (http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_on_MinGW_x86) - this one is known to work. (Every newer build should work, too.)
>
> SEH support and C11/C++11 threading are not yet relevant.
>
> Regards,
> Kai

I forgot: cygwin is not supported!

Regards,
Kai

On 05/03/2014 17:25, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Even if a recent mingw-w64 package is required, LDC is only supported on
> 32 bit. You can use the version mentioned in the wiki
> (http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_on_MinGW_x86) - this one is known to
> work. (Every newer build should work, too.)
>

Yeah, after a few headaches and confusion with Cygwin and even the Mingw-builds packages, I decided best to just use the package mentioned in the LDC README, even if that pollutes my PATH a bit.

> SEH support and C11/C++11 threading are not yet relevant.

Ok, good to understand that. BTW, the "LDC on 32 bit only" limitation is a LDC limitation, or LLVM one?

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Hi Bruno!

On Wednesday, 5 March 2014 at 21:38:13 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> On 05/03/2014 17:25, Kai Nacke wrote:
>> Even if a recent mingw-w64 package is required, LDC is only supported on
>> 32 bit. You can use the version mentioned in the wiki
>> (http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_on_MinGW_x86) - this one is known to
>> work. (Every newer build should work, too.)
>>
>
> Yeah, after a few headaches and confusion with Cygwin and even the Mingw-builds packages, I decided best to just use the package mentioned in the LDC README, even if that pollutes my PATH a bit.
>
>> SEH support and C11/C++11 threading are not yet relevant.
>
> Ok, good to understand that. BTW, the "LDC on 32 bit only" limitation is a LDC limitation, or LLVM one?

Well, both. LLVM currently has no SEH support for Windows 64bit (a task I am working on). But the runtime libraries also miss some support, e.g. nested exceptions on Windows 64bit.
This is all Windows related! There are no restrictions on Linux, FreeBSD, ...

Regards,
Kai

On 06/03/2014 07:18, Kai Nacke wrote:
> This is all Windows related! There are no restrictions on Linux,
> FreeBSD, ...
>
> Regards,
> Kai

Yeah, I know, but my main (and currently only) motivation for trying out LDC was actually to have an up to date D compiler with debugging working on Windows, without having to use Visual Studio...

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