DMD to GDC option converter

[Basile B. via D.gnu]

On Friday, 11 December 2015 at 18:24:13 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Am Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:54:38 +0000
> schrieb Basile B. <b2.temp at gmx.com>:
>
>> On Friday, 11 December 2015 at 17:51:52 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>> > On Friday, 11 December 2015 at 17:39:04 UTC, Thomas Brix 
>> > Larsen wrote:
>> >> On Friday, 11 December 2015 at 17:17:24 UTC, Basile B. 
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> [...]
>> >>
>> >> gdmd is part of the gdc package. It takes dmd options.
>> >
>> > I can't see it. I have downloaded gdc from the "choose 
>> > compilo" page, archive is "gdc-5.2.0+2.066.1.tar.xz", what's 
>> > wrong ?
>> 
>> from here more exactly:
>> 
>> http://gdcproject.org/downloads/binaries/5.2.0/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdc-5.2.0+2.066.1.tar.xz
>
> It's not included in the http://gdcproject.org/downloads/ 
> packages, but it is included in Archlinux and Debian packages 
> IIRC.
>
> I could ship the gdmd script with the binary releases but it's 
> a perl script and I'd rather have an alternative which doesn't 
> need perl installed.
>
> Source code: 
> https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDMD/blob/master/dmd-script incomplete D port: https://github.com/quickfur/GDMD/tree/dport (maybe I'll finish this some time...)

Ok, I thought it's distributed with GDC. Clearly a sript is not 
an option for me.

The GDC command line interface doesn't look like a piece of 
cake...600 lines to translate DMD options, ouch. My proposition 
still stands but I'm sorry if it looks abusive...the fact is I've 
never used GDC at all.