Alpine support for D

aberba karabutaworld at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 01:06:30 UTC 2020


On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 14:23:34 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> I notice that in the new release for Alpine Linux it mentions 
> support for D.
>
> I was curious what was meant by this and thought someone here 
> would know. Just high level, like druntime was ported or 
> packages added to the repo?

Tradionally you'd run D on something like Ubuntu, etc but Alpine 
is lightweight which is a good thing when building docker 
containers. Alpine uses a different C runtime musl?? among other 
things whilst D uses use libc. So I believe we now have bindings 
musl too to get D to work on Alpine.


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