D2 on FreeBSD

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at ubuntu.com
Tue Nov 2 09:27:50 PDT 2010


== Quote from Ezneh (petitv.isat at gmail.com)'s article
> Hi everyone, hi Walter.
> Well, I know this has been asked long time ago and you respond to that question
but I wanted to know if D2 will run on FreeBSD "soon" ?
> Here's the facts :
> Soon, I'll have to use a native compiled language to realize some tasks that
will require performance, speed, efficiency, ect.
> These tasks will have to run on a FreeBSD system.
> I know I can use other languages (C, C++, ect) but I really want to use D2.
> So, I don't want to push Walter to port dmd2 on FreeBSD "ASAP" but wanted to
know if it's planned soon.
> I know you have other things to do on DMD, so do it when you have really the
time, it's not really urgent but I'd like to have it someday :-)
> BTW, keep going on D and DMD before port it on FreeBSD. It's probably more
important to have a good implementation of D on Linux/Windows/Mac OSX with full
64bits support than having a bad implementation of D on all platforms because of me.
> I can wait for the port for some time.
> Thnaks in advance,
> Ezneh.

I thought it was already ported, but binaries are not part of release yet? ( hint,
there's a freebsd.mak in the src directory for dmd, druntime and phobos :)

Regards


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