gdc doesn't compile on mingw, but the problems are easily solved. I tried to compile it with gcc 3.2.3 and 3.4.2, using the sources for 3.4.2.

First off, mingw headers don't define alloca. Why, I don't know. So, every file that uses it has to add:

#ifdef __MINGW32__
void *alloca(size_t);
#endif

Also, gcc complains about stricmp (in dmd/gnuc.h) having both C and C++ linkage. It's solved by surrounding it with #ifndef __MINGW32__.

I think that was it. I don't know if it works, because I can't really finish making gcc 3.4.2 (it can't build libstdc++3: it complains about the C++ preprocessor, which is trying to find in /lib/cpp, which doesn't even exist). Has anyone had luck building gcc 3.4.2?

I'll keep trying to get it done, but that's what I've found so far.

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Carlos Santander Bernal

"Carlos Santander B." <csantander619@gmail.com> wrote in news:cv35u9$13ps$1@digitaldaemon.com:

> gdc doesn't compile on mingw
[...]

tried that independently, because of the reported malfunctioning on cygwin. I got stuck at the point that `pipe' and `fork' are unknown to gcc and glibc is not ported to mingw. In the hope that the bash-version mingw uses contains both, I even not got that version of bash compiled under mingw. So mingw is a really minimalistic gnu version :-(

-manfred

Manfred Nowak schrieb:

> tried that independently, because of the reported malfunctioning on cygwin. I got stuck at the point that `pipe' and `fork' are unknown to gcc and glibc is not ported to mingw. In the hope that the bash-version mingw uses contains both, I even not got that version of bash compiled under mingw. So mingw is a really minimalistic gnu version :-(

I'm unsure but it might help to dowload/install/use msysDTK, and msysDVLPR.

Regards,
Mark

Carlos Santander B. wrote:
> First off, mingw headers don't define alloca. Why, I don't know. So, every file that uses it has to add:
> 
> #ifdef __MINGW32__
> void *alloca(size_t);
> #endif

Really? Mine has it in malloc.h - and it #defines it to be a builtin-call instead of a library function.

-eye

Ilya Minkov wrote:
> Carlos Santander B. wrote:
> 
>> First off, mingw headers don't define alloca. Why, I don't know. So, every file that uses it has to add:
>>
>> #ifdef __MINGW32__
>> void *alloca(size_t);
>> #endif
> 
> 
> Really? Mine has it in malloc.h - and it #defines it to be a builtin-call instead of a library function.
> 
> -eye

Well, I couldn't find it anywhere back then, and that's what I had to do. But since using mingw was so disappointing (compared to cygwin or a real unix), I already uninstalled it.

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Carlos Santander Bernal