From: Marie-Joseph <Marie-Joseph@users.noreply.github.com>
To: ml@inbox.vuxu.org
Subject: [ISSUE] package ldc for aarch64 (and more)
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 07:09:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gh-mailinglist-notifications-41a7ca26-5023-4802-975b-f1789d68868e-void-packages-34752@inbox.vuxu.org> (raw)
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New issue by Marie-Joseph on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/34752
Description:
## Rationale
Currently, ldc is only available for x86 systems. This is likely because it requires an extant D compiler to build, and the template uses dmd since gdc and its gdmd wrapper are not packaged. Dmd only supports x86. What this means in effect is that D is only available to Void users on x86. Fear not! We (and I do intend to work on this so I really do mean we) can bring D to other Void users in three relatively simple steps.
## Steps
- [ ] package gdc
This is the ldc team's suggested D compiler for bootstrapping ldc and is cross-platform. Gdc is available in gcc sources, and versions <=11.2 use a C++ frontend (no D compiler needed). Since Void uses 10.x anyway, all that's required is to update the template with an option to pass the flag `--enable_languages=d` (like is done now for Ada) and the relevant packaging code.
- [ ] package [gdmd](https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdmd)
When using gdc to bootstrap ldc, the gdmd frontend is required. It's just a wrapper to make gdc accept the same arguments as ldc and dmd.
- [ ] update ldc template to use gdc and gdmd instead of dmd
This should be as simple as adding them as dependencies and possibly passing a flag to point ldc's build system at them.
Et voilà, D will be available to (almost) every Void user, as well as a new frontend and backend for x86 users! And, since there will now be two cross-platform D compilers available in addition to dmd, moving beyond gcc 11.2 shouldn't affect this much.
## Notes
Since I need this, I'm going to work on it and will update this issue as I progress. If more capable hands want to take over, feel absolutely free. It'll likely take me several days to a couple weeks to do this (especially since my build machine for testing is a Raspberry Pi 4) and I'm sure others with more experience would be able to do it faster.
next reply other threads:[~2021-12-29 6:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-29 6:09 Marie-Joseph [this message]
2021-12-30 19:59 ` sug0
2021-12-30 21:27 ` ericonr
2021-12-30 21:38 ` q66
2021-12-31 1:16 ` Marie-Joseph
2021-12-31 1:17 ` Marie-Joseph
2021-12-31 1:31 ` Marie-Joseph
2021-12-31 2:23 ` q66
2021-12-31 2:25 ` q66
2021-12-31 19:07 ` Marie-Joseph
2021-12-31 20:27 ` Marie-Joseph
2021-12-31 22:47 ` q66
2022-06-20 2:13 ` github-actions
2022-07-04 2:15 ` [ISSUE] [CLOSED] " github-actions
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