Ehem, ARM

[Joakim]

On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 08:54:21 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 08:24:55 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> Would it make sense to use dmd for linux/x86 to cross-compile 
>> to Android/x86 or is this a job for ldc/gdc only?
>
> I would say ldc/gdc only, as LLVM/gcc are the supported NDK 
> toolchains and dmd lacks an ARM backend.

Yeah, I'm aware of these facts, but I don't think they matter.  
For one, dmd not having an ARM backend doesn't impact me since 
I'm targeting Android/x86 for now, :) as stated earlier.  I don't 
think it's relevant what toolchains are integrated into the NDK 
as, for example, the Free Pascal compiler can now compile to 
Android and it isn't based on gcc or llvm:

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Android

I think the bigger issue is that llvm/gcc and therefore ldc/gdc 
have support for cross-compilation, but I don't know the status 
of cross-compiling support with dmd.