Well, it's been a total failure

chmod+x zip at should.support.it
Sun Sep 12 18:33:50 PDT 2010


dsimcha Wrote:

> == Quote from Jesse Phillips (jessekphillips+D at gmail.com)'s article
> > Lutger Wrote:
> > > You need the i686 versions of some packages, probably start with libgcc (yum
> > > install libgcc.i686) and glibc, I don't remember which exactly are required. I
> > > have dmd running on 64 bit fedora just fine, it can work. There is also a 64-bit
> > > dmd in the making which should solve all those problems.
> > Based on a previous post by Walter, it sounds like he is working on just the
> code generation for 64bit and does not see a need to make the compiler 64 bit itself.
> 
> The compiler already has been compilable as a 64-bit binary for months.  IMHO,
> though, Walter should release a 64-bit pre-compiled binary to make life easy for
> ppl with 64-bit installs.

Another source of misery are the contents of the dmd zip file. Every time you need to set +x flag for the executable. This is so ridiculous. Does the Creator accept one bit binary patches to the distributions to make the solution a reality? It's open source:

unzip dmdzip.zip
chmod +x executables
zip -r dmdzip *


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