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digitalmars.D - What about x64 windows?

reply "Davita" <dato0011 hotmail.com> writes:
Hi guys.
Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows? Or D 
won't support x64 at all?

Thanks
Apr 11 2012
next sibling parent "Aleksandar =?UTF-8?B?UnXFvmnEjWnEhyI=?= <aleksandar ruzicic.info> writes:
On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 at 12:45:08 UTC, Davita wrote:

 Hi guys.
 Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows? Or D 
 won't support x64 at all?

 Thanks



As far as I know, optlink (linker used by dmd on windows) cannot 
output 64bit binaries, so until optlink gets upgraded (or until 
dmd switches to another linker, which I think all of us windows 
devs would really like to see) there will be no support for 64bit 
D applications on windows..
Apr 11 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Trass3r <un known.com> writes:
 Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows?



No.
object file format, librarian, linker, etc. are from the stone age and  
don't support x64.
Will take time.
Apr 11 2012
next sibling parent "Davita" <dato0011 hotmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 at 13:10:05 UTC, Trass3r wrote:

 Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows?



 No.
 object file format, librarian, linker, etc. are from the stone 
 age and don't support x64.
 Will take time.



Is there any roadmap/timeline when we should wait for x64? Is the 
work started about it at all?

Thanks
Apr 11 2012
prev sibling parent Trass3r <un known.com> writes:
 object file format, librarian, linker, etc. are from the stone age and  
 don't support x64.
 Will take time.



 Is there any roadmap/timeline when we should wait for x64? Is the work  
 started about it at all?



No.
I totally forgot that you can use gdc though.
Apr 11 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh gmail.com> writes:
On 11.04.2012 16:45, Davita wrote:

 Hi guys.
 Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows? Or D won't
 support x64 at all?

 Thanks



Given that there is x64 MinGW version of gdc that shouldn't be a problem?
(GDC is usually around one release behind though)

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky
Apr 11 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Kagamin" <spam here.lot> writes:
On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 at 12:45:08 UTC, Davita wrote:

 Hi guys.
 Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows? Or D 
 won't support x64 at all?

 Thanks



https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads
Apr 11 2012
parent Mirko Pilger <pilger cymotec.de> writes:
 https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads



you are going to need this, too:

http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/
Apr 11 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent Kai Nacke <kai redstar.de> writes:
On 11.04.2012 14:45, Davita wrote:

 Hi guys.
 Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows? Or D won't
 support x64 at all?

 Thanks



You can compile and run LDC2 on Windows x64. The major problem is 
missing support for SEH64 exception handling in the used LLVM compiler 
framework.

https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc

Kai
Apr 11 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent Don Clugston <dac nospam.com> writes:
On 11/04/12 14:45, Davita wrote:

 Hi guys.
 Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows? Or D won't
 support x64 at all?

 Thanks



It is a known blocker issue.
Nothing has been announced, but it will definitely happen.
It is surely far less work than adding 64-bit code generation to an 
ancient 32-bit back-end (which took Walter less than one year).
Apr 12 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent "Kagamin" <spam here.lot> writes:
On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 at 16:18:21 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:

 You can compile and run LDC2 on Windows x64. The major problem 
 is missing support for SEH64 exception handling in the used 
 LLVM compiler framework.

 https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc

 Kai



Does it support at least DWARF exceptions?
Apr 13 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent "eles" <eles eles.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 at 14:14:33 UTC, Kagamin wrote:

 On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 at 12:45:08 UTC, Davita wrote:

 Hi guys.
 Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows? Or D 
 won't support x64 at all?

 Thanks



 https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads



That link is outdated. New repository for GDC is:

https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC
Apr 13 2012
prev sibling parent "Kagamin" <spam here.lot> writes:
On Friday, 13 April 2012 at 20:18:24 UTC, eles wrote:

 On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 at 14:14:33 UTC, Kagamin wrote:

 On Wednesday, 11 April 2012 at 12:45:08 UTC, Davita wrote:

 Hi guys.
 Is there a going development on x64 compiler for windows? Or 
 D won't support x64 at all?

 Thanks



 https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads



 That link is outdated. New repository for GDC is:

 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC



Repository - yes, binaries - no.
Apr 17 2012