compiling dmd on linux

[Georg Wrede]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> Compiling dmd seems to need some tweaking. I downloaded the *updated* 
> version of D2.026, copied ./dmd into a new directory an ran

I mean ./src/dmd

> $make -f linux.mak all
> 
> There was no *rule* for making dchar, so I compiled it manually and 
> moved it with the others. (Not sensible, but at the time I thought 
> that'd be the only problem...)
> 
> $ cd root
> $ g++ -m32 -Wno-deprecated -D__near= -D__pascal= -fno-exceptions\
>    -O2  -D__I 86__=1 -DMARS=1 -DTARGET_LINUX=1 -D_DH -c   dchar.c
> $ mv dchar.o ..
> $ cd ..
> $ make -f linux.mak all
> 
> 
> Got some errors, so I started editing linux.mak. Thus far it looks like
> 
> $ diff linux.mak.bak linux.mak
> 218c218
> < dchar.o: ../root/dchar.c
> ---
>  > dchar.o: $(ROOT)/dchar.c
> 
> 
> Then I changed "../mars/mars.h" to "../mars.h" in 2 files:
> backend/elfobj.c backend/dwarf.c
> 
> 
> Another thing, what about new.h?
> 
> I'm on Fedora 10, and I suspect new.h is deprecated.
> 
> $ grep -R "new\.h" *
> ph.c:#include    <new.h>
> tk/mem.c:#include    <new.h>
>