Are there build instructions that don't involve building the rest of GCC at the same time? I realize wrong version mismatches are bad but I'll redo it until it works lol!

On 2016-03-02 07:47, asdf via D.gnu wrote:
> Are there build instructions that don't involve building the rest of GCC at the same time? I realize wrong version mismatches are bad but I'll redo it until it works lol!
I don't think so. Blame the legendary GCC modularity!

I wrote a simple script to build a windows-targetting GDC. The script you might want to look at is "build_gnu". https://github.com/Ace17/MinGW-GDC

It will mostly work out of the box, so you will not lose time redoing it: i've already done it for you! :-) Even if you don't run it, this might be of some help anyway.

On 2 Mar 2016 9:09 pm, "asdf via D.gnu" <d.gnu@puremagic.com> wrote:
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> Are there build instructions that don't involve building the rest of GCC
at the same time? I realize wrong version mismatches are bad but I'll redo it until it works lol!

Sorry, no.  GCC isn't a library that you can just link to.  You need to build all parts in order to make a working compiler.

You can drastically speed up compile time by configuring with --disable-bootstrap however.

Iain.

On Wednesday, 2 March 2016 at 20:54:54 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 2 Mar 2016 9:09 pm, "asdf via D.gnu" <d.gnu@puremagic.com> wrote:
>>
>> Are there build instructions that don't involve building the rest of GCC
> at the same time? I realize wrong version mismatches are bad but I'll redo it until it works lol!
>
> Sorry, no.  GCC isn't a library that you can just link to.  You need to build all parts in order to make a working compiler.
>
> You can drastically speed up compile time by configuring with --disable-bootstrap however.
>
> Iain.

Thanks. I ran out of disk space with the whole thing and ended up reinstalling ldc2.