Testing out the new cross-compilation support in ldc master

[Joakim via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Friday, 18 August 2017 at 16:12:25 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Thanks for the write-up!
>
> On Friday, 18 August 2017 at 07:34:04 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> Right now, it has to be built from the git repo, as the first 
>> official release it will ship with is the upcoming ldc 1.4 beta
>
> Not entirely true; we have CI builds for Windows, which happen 
> to include our tailored (Android-ready) LLVM already. It 
> obviously also includes the ldc-build-runtime tool (which btw 
> is part of the `all` build target, no need to be built 
> manually). So for a quick test on Windows, a recent CI build is 
> already enough, and one only needs the prerequisites (Android 
> NDK, CMake, ninja) and LDC source and can then start with the 
> last step (5).

OK, didn't know about those.  Here's the wiki page with more 
info, if anyone wants to try it out on Windows:

https://wiki.dlang.org/Latest_LDC_binaries_for_Windows