Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > Is MSYS/MinGW needed for building LDC/LLVM on windows? I found that to be a > problem with GCC. >
LLVM can be built with MSVC, and LDC is in the works. However, this is experimental, there are some issues left, and since LLVM relies on GCC to generate native code, MinGW will still be necessary anyways; so the recommended way is to build LLVM and LDC via MSYS/MinGW for now. If you run into problems feel free to join #ldc on freenode, feedback is always welcome. Please keep in mind that, as Christian already mentioned, there's no support for exception handling on Windows in LLVM yet, and although we're working on it we might not get to a solution until this is fixed in LLVM, so LDC's usability on Windows is very limited at the moment. This release is really just intended for x86-32 Linux.
