hi,

I'd like to use d for some kind of system progrmaming project within a company that has to support windows 64 bit (windows 2003+) espesially in a VS.Net environment (so to say MS toolchain). I don't think I am able to pursuade them to switch to a mingw od cygwin environment.

Has anybody of you used the dmd compiler in tandem with the VS.NET environment in a 64 bit environment.

So to say: For instance build a 64bit dll with d and then link them to a 64 bit version of a MSVC application or PInvoke it using the CLR?

Are there some expierences regarding this setup? Pleas share them with me.

thanks in advance
-- Jakob

Jakob Praher wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I'd like to use d for some kind of system progrmaming project within a company that has to support windows 64 bit (windows 2003+) espesially in a VS.Net environment (so to say MS toolchain). I don't think I am able to pursuade them to switch to a mingw od cygwin environment.
> 
> Has anybody of you used the dmd compiler in tandem with the VS.NET environment in a 64 bit environment.
> 
> So to say: For instance build a 64bit dll with d and then link them to a 64 bit version of a MSVC application or PInvoke it using the CLR?
> 
> Are there some expierences regarding this setup? Pleas share them with me.
> 
> thanks in advance
> -- Jakob

DMD currently does not support 64-bit codegen.  Additionally, I highly doubt that anything produced by MS' tools can be read by DMD.  It may also be true vice-versa, but I've never had an opportunity to test.

	-- Daniel

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Jakob Praher wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I'd like to use d for some kind of system progrmaming project within a company that has to support windows 64 bit (windows 2003+) espesially in a VS.Net environment (so to say MS toolchain). I don't think I am able to pursuade them to switch to a mingw od cygwin environment.
> 
> Has anybody of you used the dmd compiler in tandem with the VS.NET environment in a 64 bit environment.
> 
> So to say: For instance build a 64bit dll with d and then link them to a 64 bit version of a MSVC application or PInvoke it using the CLR?
> 
> Are there some expierences regarding this setup? Pleas share them with me.
> 
> thanks in advance
> -- Jakob

I'm not sure about the 64-bit part (I assume its possible, DMD can certainly do 64-bit).  I think someone posted a little while ago how to use the MSVS linker to build DMD executables (I can't find the thread here).  I would search at bit longer however I've gotta run.

Also integration wise, people have done that before.  Check out the thread "D and MSVC .net 2002".

Hope that was helpful.
-Joel

Jakob Praher wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I'd like to use d for some kind of system progrmaming project within a company that has to support windows 64 bit (windows 2003+) espesially in a VS.Net environment (so to say MS toolchain). I don't think I am able to pursuade them to switch to a mingw od cygwin environment.
> 
> Has anybody of you used the dmd compiler in tandem with the VS.NET environment in a 64 bit environment.

No, though someone had a back-end that generated CLI code at one point.  Also, I was suddenly reminded of this this morning:

http://research.microsoft.com/phoenix/

It would take some work, but it might be interesting to see if the DMD front-end could be integrated with Phoenix as a shortcut to generating Win64 binaries.


Sean

I am afraid I cannot find a source for generating dmd 64bit object files. Is the backend still worked on?

-- Jakob

Jakob Praher wrote:

> I am afraid I cannot find a source for generating dmd 64bit object files. Is the backend still worked on?
> 
> -- Jakob

As far as I know there presently is no way for dmd to generate 64bit code, however the gdc compiler can (at least for linux) so you could start looking here dgcc.sf.net .