GDC support for non-windows

Jason House jason.james.house at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 19:52:12 PDT 2011


Daniel Gibson Wrote:

> Am 19.04.2011 03:09, schrieb Jason House:
> > Looking at https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads I see that every file is compiled for windows and has no releases for any other platforms.  I assume this is probably just an artifact of what the main developer(s) use, but it makes me wonder.  How stable is GDC on other platforms?
> 
> It's mainly developed on Linux. There are compiled Windows versions because
> compiling it on windows is such a pain in the ass.
> If you're using another Platform (Linux/OSX/FreeBSD) compile it yourself
> or install it from your distributions repository (there are GDC packages
> for Debian and Ubuntu, for example. Only for D1, though) :)
> 
> Cheers,
> - Daniel

I'm interested in D2 support under Ubuntu. I've compiled GDC from source in the past (before the project was resumed/forked). It took forever and had a lot of dependencies that I had to install, etc... Why is there a D1 package and not a D2 package?


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