DMD on Haiku?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 30 October 2012 at 18:53:23 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen 
wrote:
> On 30-10-2012 19:35, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 30 October 2012 at 13:55:42 UTC, Alex Rønne 
>> Petersen wrote:
>>> On 30-10-2012 14:46, Isak Andersson wrote:
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, it seems like POSIX kind of failed in the sense that 
>>>> you can't
>>>> just have a simple posix makefile that works for any posix 
>>>> compliant os.
>>>
>>> I direct you to the POSIX makefiles of DMD, druntime, and 
>>> phobos. ;)
>>>
>>
>> Which as far as I am aware only work on POSIX == Linux.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Er... they work on Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris/SunOS.

Ok I was a bit stupid with my remark, sorry about that.

Anyway, I remember when I tried my toy experiment with porting 
DMD for Solaris I had to do some patches.

You would be surprised what commercial UNIX systems understand as 
POSIX vs what the standard says. Somehow I don't miss my days 
porting software among UNIX platforms.

--
Paulo