D2 Library Porters

[Jakob Bornecrantz]

On Tuesday, 3 July 2012 at 11:43:04 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 3 July 2012 11:55, Jakob Bornecrantz <wallbraker at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 3 July 2012 at 10:12:39 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm going to be pushing gdc-4.8 package into debian this 
>>> weekend (give
>>> about a fortnight for it to land in sid) - is anyone 
>>> interested in porting
>>> Druntime / Phobos over to the architectures that Debian 
>>> supports?  I can
>>> give anyone a quick crash course through building a cross 
>>> compiler if they
>>> need it.
>>>
>>> The challenge this summer is to get this list out of the red 
>>> and into the
>>> green. :)
>>
>>
>> Cool.
>>
>> Getting D into the mingw cross compiler is something I would
>> very much like to see? Is that something you are working?
>>
>> Cheers, Jakob.
>
> I'm not working on it, no.

Ah, shame :-/

> There are quite a few alterations to binutls / gcc backend if
> I recall correctly that enable D2 runtime (notably thread-local
> storage) to function correctly on MinGW. These
> may block the ability to make a MinGW cross-compiler also.

Okay.

Cheers, Jakob.