New GDC binaries: 2.068.2, shared library support, multilib support & a new gdmd tool

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 25 December 2016 at 19:41:38 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Happy holidays everybody,
>
> I'm happy to finally announce the release of new GDC binaries 
> at https://gdcproject.org/downloads.

Congratulations!

> massive internal changes in GDC in preparation for the DDMD 
> frontend

Sounded very exiting what I heard from Iain recently.

> * Shared library support: We added support for shared libraries 
> to GDC

Great, might be time to revive 
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/617 soon.

> * New mechanism to link system dependencies: All system 
> libraries
>   needed by phobos (-ldl, -lrt, -latomic) are detected in the
>   phobos ./configure script. The required dependencies are 
> added to a
>   libgphobos.spec file and installed along with the 
> libgphobos.so/.a
>   libraries. GDC then reads this file to detect the required 
> libraries,
>   so the libraries are no longer hard coded in GDC. Note for
>   distribution packagers: You must make sure to manually 
> install this
>   file if you do not use the standard make install command.

Sounds interesting for dmd as well.

> Travis-CI should pick up the new release from now on.

Thanks for updating :)

It's actually all handled by the install.sh script, so you'll 
also get the latest gdc with `curl -fsS 
https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s gdc` and anything else 
using that script, e.g. Travis-CI and the Heroku buildpack.