GDC installers

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Sun Nov 1 07:01:28 PST 2009


Jacob Carlborg wrote:

>> http://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/
>>
>> Once the project has been successfully restarted,
>> some new installers could be made - if desired ?
> 
> Yes please, that would be nice to have.

The original upstream (i.e. "dgcc") used tarballs,
much in the same way that DigitalMars uses zipfile:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dgcc/files/
gdc-0.24-mingw32-gcc-3.4.5.tar.bz2 (gdcwin)
gdc-0.24-i686-linux-gnu-gcc-4.1.2.tar.bz2
gdc-0.24-powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc-4.1.2.tar.bz2
gdc-0.24-macosx-universal-gcc-5363.tar.bz2 (gdcmac)
gdc-0.24-i386-freebsd-gcc-3.4.6.tar.bz2

Making exe/rpm/pkg installers from those was easy,
when compared with having to build gcc from source.


Not that it is terribly complex either, but it does
take a lot of time and space compared to the binary:

http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/gdc/install.html
http://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/Home

It seemed to be missing the instructions for Windows
and for Mac OS X, those are similar but not identical:

http://gdcwin.sourceforge.net/gcc-3.4.5-build.sh
http://gdcmac.sourceforge.net/gcc-5363-README.Apple

Probably needs to be updated for gcc-4.3.0-20080502+
and gcc_42-5564+ but it should be about the same...

--anders


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