> On 12 Sep 2023, at 20:42, Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>
> ASSI <strom...@nexgo.de> writes:
>
>> Richard Biener via Gcc writes:
>>> I think we should fix this build problems. Is there a bugzilla with
>>> more details about the problem?
>>
>> No, I don't have an account on that bugtracker.
>>
>> It is possible that the build would perhaps work, but the configure
>> check for the presence of a D compiler requires not just the compiler,
>> but also a runtime and thus fails on Cygwin.
>
> Just try to configure gcc with --enable-libphobos, which overrides the
> default of LIBPHOBOS_SUPPORTED. In quite a number of cases, this just
> works, but hasn't yet been verified. You won't know until you try,
> though.
also you can add —with-libphobos-druntime-only to the GCC-11 build, that
makes a compiler sufficient for bootstrapping 12+ and is much less demanding
on completeness of OS support.
Iain
