On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Kapps <
opantm2+spam@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, 19 March 2012 at 10:57:13 UTC, Manu wrote:
>>
>> On 19 March 2012 10:59, Manu <
turkeyman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 17 March 2012 21:37, Andrej Mitrovic
>>> <
andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/17/12, Manu <
turkeyman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > Did find that one, but now missing libppl_c-4.dll
>>>> > This is a bit silly. A binary toolchain needs to have these > in the
>>>> archive.
>>>> > No point if you can't run it.
>>>>
>>>> I think I've had the same issues before because I've installed TDM x86
>>>> instead of the TDM x64 (labeled "experimental" in setup) . Could that
>>>> be the issue?
>>>>
>>>> The GDC I've used is:
>>>> gcc-4.6.1-tdm64-1-gdc-232cd89d90b4-20120128.7z
>>>>
>>>> The TDM setup:
>>>> tdm64-gcc-4.6.1.exe
>>>>
>>>> libgmp-3.dll is then installed to
>>>> MinGW64\libexec\gcc\x86_64-w64-mingw32\4.6.1\ (and so is
>>>> libppl_c-4.dll)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Okay, well I got that package, and it does seem to have the full list of
>>> dll's I need (there were about 5 more), but gdc still won't work:
>>> > gdc main.d
>>> gdc: fatal error: -fuse-linker-plugin, but liblto_plugin-0.dll not
>>> found compilation terminated.
>>>
>>> that dll was in there too, and it is certainly present in my path, but it
>>> continues to complain... :/
>>>
>>
>> Okay, I managed to make it work by just transplanting the whole gdc
>> distribution directly into a functioning MinGW64 installation. There must
>> have been weird relative pathing built into the tools, so it didn't find
>> the DLL's even though they were present in the path.
>>
>> I really think the next binary GDC release should carefully have all those
>> DLL's included, so it actually like, works.
>> I'd say the point of a binary release is for windows users who don't want
>> to know anything about linux or gcc toolchain issues can just use it and
>> get to work :)
>
>
> Agreed. I've tried a couple of times to get GDC working, but every time I've
> given up simply because hunting down numerous libraries (which sometimes
> error themselves or need additional libraries themselves) is really not
> reasonable just to try a new compiler. If GDC was as simple to use as DMD,
> there would be many more Windows users.