GDC with later DMD's

[Mathieu Chouinard]

Gregor Richards wrote:

> GDC 0.17 is unfortunately out of date with respect to DMD.  I've been
> hacking at it and got a working GDC based on DMD 0.154, simply by
> incrementally going version-by-version, repatching it, and making sure
> it still compiles.  It seems to be working.  Most importantly, it
> compiles much of the stuff that GDC 0.17 doesn't due to language changes.
> 
> I don't want to fork or anything ... if the changes are relatively
> working, it'd be nice to get them into GDC proper.
> 
> Also, I fixed a strange bug that was annoying me.  It seems that GDC
> 0.17 doesn't compile std.c.linux.linux in, even on a GNU/Linux system.
> The function is replicated by std.c.unix.unix, but unfortunately if a
> program does:
> 
> version (linux) { std.c.linux.linux... }
> 
> it would fail.  I dummied down std.c.linux.linux to not conflict with
> the other built-in things (and to import them of course), and it seems
> to work - at least I can finally build 'build' ^^
> 
> 
> Another issue - libgphobos.a.  I don't quite understand why GDC 0.17
> only makes a .a.  It makes binaries quite big.  I modified phobos' auto*
> stuff to use libtool and make libgphobos.so.0.  That too seems to work.
> 
> If anybody wants a copy, I can get it to you.  David: What's your
> status?  Are you still maintaining GDC?  Do you have an accessible
> public repository?  It'd be nice if I could make changes without feeling
> like I was working against you :(
> 
>   - Gregor Richards
I'm also interested ... I'm currently trying to get it
working with gcc 4.1.0 ... 
Mathieu