Well, it's been a total failure

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Mon Sep 13 01:12:11 PDT 2010


On 2010-09-13 02:10, 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.

Yes, I've been compiling dmd as a 64bit binary since I switched to a 
64bit system, Snow Leopard.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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