In D 2.063.2 on Windows 7:
Error: SIMD vector types not supported on this platform

Should I file a bug for this or is this currently on a roadmap? I'm SUPER excited to get into SIMD development with D. :D

Btw, is it possible to check for SIMD support as a compilation condition? Ideally I'm looking to 'polyfill' SIMD if it's not supported on the platform.

On 6/21/2013 3:43 PM, Jonathan Dunlap wrote:
> In D 2.063.2 on Windows 7:
> Error: SIMD vector types not supported on this platform
>
> Should I file a bug for this or is this currently on a roadmap? I'm SUPER
> excited to get into SIMD development with D. :D

It's not a bug, and there are currently no plans to support SIMD on Win32. However, it is supported for Win64 compilations.

You can, however, file an enhancement request on Bugzilla for it.

On 22 June 2013 09:04, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 6/21/2013 3:43 PM, Jonathan Dunlap wrote:
>
>> In D 2.063.2 on Windows 7:
>> Error: SIMD vector types not supported on this platform
>>
>> Should I file a bug for this or is this currently on a roadmap? I'm SUPER excited to get into SIMD development with D. :D
>>
>
> It's not a bug, and there are currently no plans to support SIMD on Win32. However, it is supported for Win64 compilations.
>
> You can, however, file an enhancement request on Bugzilla for it.
>

It would certainly be nice in Win32, but I tend to think Win32 COFF should be much higher priority.

And to OP: There's a version(SIMD) you can test.

Walter Bright:

> It's not a bug, and there are currently no plans to support SIMD on Win32. However, it is supported for Win64 compilations.

LDC2 supports SIMD on Win32.

Bye,
bearophile

On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 23:04:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/21/2013 3:43 PM, Jonathan Dunlap wrote:
>> In D 2.063.2 on Windows 7:
>> Error: SIMD vector types not supported on this platform
>>
>> Should I file a bug for this or is this currently on a roadmap? I'm SUPER
>> excited to get into SIMD development with D. :D
>
> It's not a bug, and there are currently no plans to support SIMD on Win32. However, it is supported for Win64 compilations.
>
> You can, however, file an enhancement request on Bugzilla for it.

How do you compile for Win64? The only package for Windows I see is i386 which doesn't seem to support Win64 offhand... does the compiler require a flag?

(yes, I'm on a Win64 OS/system)

On Saturday, 22 June 2013 at 04:28:57 UTC, Jonathan Dunlap wrote:
> On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 23:04:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/21/2013 3:43 PM, Jonathan Dunlap wrote:
>>> In D 2.063.2 on Windows 7:
>>> Error: SIMD vector types not supported on this platform
>>>
>>> Should I file a bug for this or is this currently on a roadmap? I'm SUPER
>>> excited to get into SIMD development with D. :D
>>
>> It's not a bug, and there are currently no plans to support SIMD on Win32. However, it is supported for Win64 compilations.
>>
>> You can, however, file an enhancement request on Bugzilla for it.
>
> How do you compile for Win64? The only package for Windows I see is i386 which doesn't seem to support Win64 offhand... does the compiler require a flag?
>
> (yes, I'm on a Win64 OS/system)

The i386 DMD can produce Win64 COFF object files which can then be linked by the free MSVC toolchain.  Basically you just need to install that toolchain and DMD -m64 should just work in my experience.  Someone probably has a link handy for the MSVC toolchain.  I'm  not sure because I have Visual Studio installed for work so I've always already got it installed.

If just installing VC++ doesn't work... http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.2800.1355837582.5162.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com
On Saturday, 22 June 2013 at 04:28:57 UTC, Jonathan Dunlap wrote:
> On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 23:04:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/21/2013 3:43 PM, Jonathan Dunlap wrote:
>>> In D 2.063.2 on Windows 7:
>>> Error: SIMD vector types not supported on this platform
>>>
>>> Should I file a bug for this or is this currently on a roadmap? I'm SUPER
>>> excited to get into SIMD development with D. :D
>>
>> It's not a bug, and there are currently no plans to support SIMD on Win32. However, it is supported for Win64 compilations.
>>
>> You can, however, file an enhancement request on Bugzilla for it.
>
> How do you compile for Win64? The only package for Windows I see is i386 which doesn't seem to support Win64 offhand... does the compiler require a flag?
>
> (yes, I'm on a Win64 OS/system)

Alright, I installed VC2010 (with x64 libs) and added the -m64 option to the compiler. Sadly the compiler dies with the below message. Should I file a bug or did I miss something?
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Building: Easy (Debug)

Performing main compilation...

Current dictionary: C:\Users\dunlap\Documents\GitHub\CodeEval\Dlang\

C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\dmd.exe -debug -gc "main.d" "SIMDTests.d"  "-IC:\D\dmd2\src\druntime\src" "-IC:\D\dmd2\src\phobos" "-odobj\Debug" "-ofC:\Users\dunlap\Documents\GitHub\CodeEval\Dlang\bin\Debug\SIMDTests.exe" -m64

Internal error: ..\ztc\cgcv.c 2162

Exit code 1

Build complete -- 1 error, 0 warnings

Also tried VC2012 Express (with x64 libs)... received the same compiler error.