Help me get GDC as a syntax checker option for Flycheck

[Iain Buclaw via D.gnu]

On 15 November 2014 13:47, ketmar via D.gnu <d.gnu at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:39:52 +0000
> "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.
>>
>> Now, I'm not too familiar with the linting/error reporting
>> capabilities of GDC as opposed to DMD, and would like some help
>> in this regard. If any of you could tell me any benefits to
>> linting, error-checking or anything similar in GDC as opposed to
>> DMD, I would be very grateful, and it would help support a free
>> software compiler in a very good Emacs package.
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
> as GDC and DMD both using the same backend (despite the version
> differences, of course), there is nothing that one of them doing better
> than other.
>

Same frontend.  And even then there are some crucial differences on ABI level.