Help me get GDC as a syntax checker option for Flycheck

Iain Buclaw via D.gnu d.gnu at puremagic.com
Sat Nov 15 06:53:02 PST 2014


On 15 November 2014 13:39, Koz Ross via D.gnu <d.gnu at puremagic.com> wrote:
> First-off, I would like to thank everyone who made GDC - as a supporter of
> free software, it's good to have a compiler that doesn't have a proprietary
> back-end for a language I like as much as D.
>
> Now, I'm an avid Emacs user, and as part of that, I use Flycheck for syntax
> checking. The default syntax checker for Flycheck (which relies on external
> programs) is DMD. Not being happy with this state of affairs, I decided to
> write some Elisp to allow GDC to be used instead, and I'm happy to say that
> it works.
>
> Obviously, in the spirit of sharing and helping others, I would like my
> checker code to be included into Flycheck. However, the maintainer of
> Flycheck basically said that, unless given concrete reasons *other* than
> licensing, he would not include it.
>

Ask him why there is support for gcc and clang in flycheck then?  I
mean if you support one c++ compiler, it's pointless to support
another...


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