On Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 13:14:01 UTC, Ludovit Lucenic
wrote:
On Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 03:23:57 UTC, Manu wrote:
I got the latest GDC from dlang.org/download, but it doesn't
work.
libiconv-2.dll (and possibly others?) is not included in the
package.
If this depends on another package being present, there is no
text anywhere
along the download path to inform the user.
On 22 August 2013 13:07, Manu <[email protected]> wrote:
So I'm trying to find windows binaries for GDC and LDC...
First place I look is dlang.org/download. Appears to be for
DMD... keep
looking.
I look at the GDC/LDC wiki pages. No links to binaries
anywhere.
GDC and LDC home pages... no links to binaries.
Github doesn't host binaries anymore...
Where are they?
Turns out there are links to the GDC binaries (hosted on
bitbucket) on
dlang.org/download.
...I didn't previously notice they were there, never scrolled
down far
enough. The impression you get from the top of the page is
that dlang.orgis just DMD related, and I quickly dismissed it
previously >_<
But there's still no LDC binary there... where is it?
This needs to be fixed. You can argue I'm retarded and
ignorant, but as an
end user, it should take me no more than 5 seconds to find
the download
button.
I suggest, on the front page of dlang.org, there should be a
MASSIVE
button: "DOWNLOAD D COMPILERS", and the download page should
be tweaked to
be more obviously compiler agnostic.
D1 and DMC consume an unreasonable amount of realestate,
hiding GDC/LDC
(surely basically nobody is looking for those?), perhaps they
should be
reduced to small test links with the other links down the
bottom of the
page?
This will allow room to present GDC and LDC without scrolling.
And why is there no LDC binary?
I am completely with you, Manu.
Same with me with GDC under Windows. Missing libiconv-2.dll...
The same happened to me when looking around for the other two D
compilers. It took me a couple of days until I found the link
on the dlang.org's download page.
Any suggestions on where to get a working copy of GDC to run on
Windows, please?
Thanks,
Ludovit
I want to try gdc and I get the same error on libiconv-2.dll
