Starting D with a project in mind.

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Thursday, 10 October 2013 at 19:49:15 UTC, Andrew wrote:
> Hence my interest in D. I've spent a few hours trying to get 
> GDC working on my Pi which is proving to be a bitch but I'm 
> hoping that it will be worth it.

I haven't done a serious program on the Pi, but I was able to get 
gdc and some test programs to compile and run successfully for 
it. Took me a couple hours too, the way I did it was with a 
crosstool-ng thingy:
http://gdcproject.org/wiki/Cross%20Compiler/crosstool-NG

so I can compile it on my Linux desktop for the pi. I did hit one 
druntime bug in the process, but I believe it has already been 
fixed so you hopefully won't have to deal with that.

The biggest problem I had was at first I didn't use the gnu-eabi 
option. I think that was in compiling druntime, not sure though, 
my memory is failing as this was several months ago when I played 
with it.


Bottom line though is I know it is possible, but I don't know how 
seamless it will be with a larger program.