D and FreeBSD

[Anders F Björklund]

Jona Joachim wrote:

> When I saw that wxD 0.07 was released I decided to give it a try and
> ported it to FreeBSD. It wasn't really difficult.
> I built it using GDC exclusively as DMD is not available in the FreeBSD
> ports.

GDC is the preferred compiler for wxD, so that should be just fine.

> Do you think there are any concerns about building the sources with GDC
> instead of DMD? All test programs seamed to work fine. The only warning I
> got during the build process was:
> 
> gdc: unrecognized option `-version=__WXGTK__'

It should have worked out of the box, using GNU Make ? ("gmake")
Anyway, -version is the wrong syntax for gdc - it uses -fversion
So you need to either modify the above, or use "gdmd" instead...

DMD uses DMC syntax, and GDC uses GCC syntax and they're different.
gdmd -version=__WXGTK__
gdc -fversion=__WXGTK__

Wonder why it didn't include the config. `uname` == "FreeBSD", yes ?

> Furthermore I'd like to know if the DMD license allows me to write a
> FreeBSD port of DMD which installs the Linux binary distribution and runs
> it under the FreeBSD Linux compatibility layer. The port would fetch the
> distfiles automatically from the Digital Mars FTP server and install them
> locally.

We did this for the Gentoo ebuild, as long as the distfile isn't
stored anywhere it should comply with the non-distribute license ?

But Walter would know for certain.

--anders