DMD back end dev-kit

Don nospam at nospam.com.au
Thu Jul 3 23:59:33 PDT 2008


Bill Baxter wrote:
> BCS wrote:
> 
>> We could do it in reverse; compile the GCC backend as a lib, and ship 
>> that and the minimal headers to Walter and then he could develop DMD 
>> with that without ever seeing a line of (executable) GCC code. He 
>> might even be able to build and ship both GCC and DMC versions of DMD.
>>
> 
> But GCC is GPL so merely linking against it automatically taints the 
> code.  Or is the current front end license GPL compatible?
> 
> --bb
Yup. Dual license GPL/artistic. See dmd/src/dmd/gpl.txt



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