dmd 1.041 and 2.026 releases

[Ellery Newcomer]

Walter Bright wrote:
> dsimcha wrote:
>> == Quote from Ellery Newcomer (ellery-newcomer at utulsa.edu)'s article
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> davesun wrote:
>>>>> when can I use dmd on 64bit linux ?
>>>>
>>>> You can now - 32 bit executables work fine on 64 bit linux!
>>> Maybe I should try it again sometime, but I ran into linker issues when
>>> I tried using DMD on 64bit linux. Other than that, DMD worked fine.
>>
>> Same here, but only on some installations of 64-bit Linux.  Others 
>> work fine.  I
>> think the key is that you need the 32-bit version of GCC and all the 
>> libraries
>> like libpthread, libgcc, libc, etc. available.  I've been nagging my 
>> sysadmin to
>> install these, though it matters less for me now that I have the DMD 
>> source and
>> was able to make DMD work on some other Linux boxes that it previously 
>> didn't work
>> on for unrelated reasons.  If you have a bunch of Linux boxes around, 
>> you can also
>> compile on one that has the 32-bit libs and copy the resulting binary 
>> over to one
>> that doesn't, and it will usually work.
> 
> On Ubuntu64, which is my main linux dev machine, the following is 
> necessary:
> 
> To compile 32 bit programs under ub64:
>  sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib libc6-i386 lib6-dev-i386
> 
> To run 32 bit programs:
>  sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib
>  sudo apt-get install g++-multilib
> 
> (After long bitter experience, I now keep notes on how to configure the 
> machine after a fresh install <g>.)

When I have free time again I'll give that a try. I found it easier just 
to put something inside a VM.