ldc and gdc

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-08-04 22:37, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am 04.08.2011, 19:34 Uhr, schrieb Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>:
>
>>> By the way... the druntime and phobos patches for LDC - are they
>>> applicable to GDC and DMD as well? I'm asking because I could imagine
>>> installing druntime, phobos, DMD, GDC and LDC and all three compilers
>>> would use the same installation of the standard library.
>>
>> They _can't_ all use the same installations. At minimum, druntime must be
>> different for each of them. That's expected and by design. Whether Phobos
>> needs to be different for each or not as far as source goes, I don't know
>> (hopefully not, but there might be a reason why it has to). But since the
>> compiled library includes both druntime and Phobos, that can't be shared.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> Thank you for the clarification. My impression was that druntime was
> created to make it possible to use either phobos or tango. If the
> compiled library includes both (with which compiler anyway? both GDC and
> LDC?) I figure that I could not install any two of the three compilers
> in their default locations on Linux, correct? If I take the time to
> create packages for Gentoo for the alternative compilers that is good to
> know. Symlinks and altered library names for druntime/phobos would be
> required. But with a mix of DMD1, DMD2, GDC, LDC, Phobos and Tango
> things could become messy :p

In the future, DVM could be used for this. DVM lets you easily install 
different versions of a D compiler and switch among them. Although it 
currently only supports DMD. DVM: https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg