D on the Raspberry Pi

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On Tuesday, 12 June 2012 at 13:06:05 UTC, Henry Robbins Gouk
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has managed to successfully compile a 
> GDC cross compiler to target the Raspberry Pi?
>
> I tried following the instructions found at 
> http://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/crosstool-ng but when I 
> try the "ct-ng build" command I get the following output:
>
> [INFO ]  Performing some trivial sanity checks
> [INFO ]  Build started 20120613.010123
> [INFO ]  Building environment variables
> [ERROR]  Static linking impossible on the host system 
> 'x86_64-build_unknown-linux-gnu'
> [00:02] / make: *** [build] Error 1
>
> Should I continue along the path of using crosstools to make a 
> cross compiler, and if so; how? Or is there a better way to 
> achieve my end goal of having a cross compiler targeting the 
> Raspberry Pi?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help :-)

I tried to build it as a cross compiler and on the raspberry
directly - and faild at both. On the raspberry I got a compiler
crash, and the cross compiler build process produced random
errors - it seems to be very fragile in terms of library versions
and such.

...so I would also be very interested in any sucess stories.