Add targets for release binaries? (1.3+)

David Nadlinger via digitalmars-d-ldc digitalmars-d-ldc at puremagic.com
Sun Apr 30 08:44:50 PDT 2017


On 28 Apr 2017, at 9:23, Adrian Matoga via digitalmars-d-ldc wrote:
> Moreover, "ARM" alone doesn't mean anything in this context. The sheer 
> number of platforms using different ABIs, architecture versions, 
> library versions and configurations makes it virtually impossible to 
> even build druntime and Phobos in a way that they could later be at 
> least linked correctly for all ARM-based platforms.
>
> That being said, having binary packages that work out-of-the-box for a 
> few popular targets, such as Raspbian, Android and OS X, wouldn't be a 
> bad thing.

True. But as you mention, there are a couple of popular targets. For 
example, Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/Arch/… all have an armhf distribution 
which targets ARMv7 without NEON. A binary package for that would 
already cover a huge portion of people just looking to try out LDC on 
their ARM dev board. (RP1 is of course its own thing, unfortunately.)

  — David


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