BSD Config

Brad Roberts braddr at puremagic.com
Mon Nov 11 09:35:20 PST 2013


On 11/11/13 8:15 AM, Joakim wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 November 2013 at 16:49:18 UTC, Tyro[17] wrote:
>> This happened on OpenBSD, FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD. I am running the 64bit version of all these
>> operating systems. Which actually might be the problem now that I think about it. Does DMD even
>> support the 64bit version  of Free/OpenBSD?
>
> Oh, I should mention also, that there isn't general BSD support in D.  Try grepping for freebsd in
> the source.  I just tried it on the source in the 2.063.2 zip file and I got 510 hits for freebsd,
> 181 hits for openbsd, and 2 hits for dragonfly.  By comparison, I got 685 hits for linux.  That
> should give you a crude but reasonable idea of how well-supported each OS is.  As for 64-bit, I
> believe it should work on FreeBSD, but likely isn't well-tested.

https://d.puremagic.com/test-results/?projectid=1

FreeBSD/32 and FreeBSD/64 are both tested just as much as the rest of the platforms.  That said, I'm 
sure that neither gets the same level of usage from the community as linux or win32.


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