Ehem, ARM

[Michel Fortin]

On 2013-11-14 19:14:03 +0000, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> said:

> On 2013-11-14 17:21, Chris wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for your reply, Kai. That's good news, however iOS and Android
>> support is crucial. I hope D can soon be ported to ARM, it's just too
>> important.
> 
> If you want to do anything useful on iOS you need to use Objective-C 
> libraries, for that you bascilly need this:
> 
> http://michelf.ca/projects/d-objc/
> 
> Latest update, but still quite outdated: 
> https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dmd/tree/d-objc

Still no modern runtime support I'd guess? With support only for the 
legacy runtime you're stuck compiling for 32-bit OS X only; 32-bit iOS 
uses the modern runtime.

And since the DMD backend won't emit ARM code, if I were still working 
on this the first thing I'd do is rebase everything to work on top of 
LDC.

Once upon a time, I did port a D game to iOS. I translated it to C++. 
But the amount of Objective-C code was pretty minimal at the end. If I 
had an ARM-capable D compiler at that time, even with no Objective-C 
support, I could have lived happily with D.
http://michelf.ca/projects/tumiki-fighters/

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Michel Fortin
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