xdc: A hypothetical D cross-compiler and AST manipulation tool.

[Chad Joan]

On Friday, 19 July 2013 at 16:42:32 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Friday, 19 July 2013 at 13:38:12 UTC, Chad Joan wrote:
>> Imagine targeting one of the ubiquitous ARM targets like 
>> Android, and its gazillion variants.  LLVM has an ARM target 
>> I'm pretty sure, but the Android community uses GCC as their 
>> compiler.  This puts LLVM/LDC on Android into a "may or may 
>> not work" category (unless they've done it already while I 
>> wasn't looking).
> A small correction, the Android NDK added clang/llvm support 
> last November in revision 8c:
>
> http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html
>
> gcc is still the default, but clang is an alternative option.  
> I don't think ldc has been ported to use whatever llvm 
> libraries the NDK is providing, but there is some official 
> support for llvm on Android now.

Cool, thanks for the info.

It's been a while since I've looked at the Android NDK.  It's 
just not fun to me without D being there ;)