DMD on Haiku?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 30 October 2012 at 12:11:41 UTC, Isak Andersson wrote:
>> Do note that getting DMD, druntime, and phobos running on 
>> Haiku will take a lot of porting work. To name a few things:
>>
>> * All preprocessor #ifs in DMD for POSIX need to have Haiku 
>> added.
>> * In all likelihood, DMD's port wrapper needs updating for 
>> Haiku.
>> * druntime's POSIX headers all need to be updated for Haiku.
>> * Any Haiku-specific header modules need to be added to 
>> druntime.
>> * DMD, druntime, and phobos all need to be tested and debugged.
>> * Probably other things I forgot.
>>
>> (This is all assuming Haiku is POSIX-compliant. If it isn't, 
>> it's going to be even more work, since most of druntime has 
>> two code paths: One for Windows and one for POSIX.)
>
> Yep, it seems like it has ran well after adding the 
> pre-proccessor stuff. But of course it needs testing and all 
> that. Haiku is very POSIX compliant although not 100%, but for 
> most needs it is fine.

Based on my experience POSIX compliance is like any standard.

You end up getting lots of #ifdef for each POSIX system anyway. 
The only people that think POSIX is a standard without any 
issues, only know GNU/Linux.

One thing missing from the list which costs a lot of effort, is 
code generation.

Based on my toy Solaris experience with DMD, I think it is easier 
to use LDC or GDC for bringing D to other platforms.

--
Paulo