gdc binary package for GNU/Linux

[Gregor Richards]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Gregor Richards wrote:
> 
>> I've made an easy-to-install binary package of GDC (0.19) for 
>> GNU/Linux on x86, any distribution.  Unfortunately, I have nowhere to 
>> host it, and not many systems to test it on.
> 
> 
> How big is it ? The binaries for Mac and Win are only about 3 MB ?
4.2MB.  Not sure why it's 1M bigger, but it's not that significant.

> 
>> You will definitely need at least GCC 3.4 installed, probably GCC 4.0. 
>> You will also need glibc 2.3.
> 
> 
> Doesn't GDC require the same version for GCC that you used for GDC ?
Not in my experience.

> 
>> GDC from this package can be installed to any path (mostly thanks to 
>> recent changes making it relocatable :) )
> 
> 
> Haven't been able to get that work too good on Mac/Win yet, though...
Works great for me :P

> 
>> If anyone has somewhere apt to upload it, or would like to test it and 
>> has an email box big enough to receive it, respond either by email or 
>> here.
> 
> 
> I guess we *could* start another "gdcgnu" project at SourceForge,
> *or* we start hosting all the different builds in a single place ?
The latter would be ideal.

> 
> There was talk earlier about a friendly portal to all things GDC...
Such as dgcc.sf.net if package-makers were given access *HINT HINT :P*

> 
> --anders

  - Gregor Richards