[dmd-internals] DMD now requires a working D compiler to be build

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 9 March 2015 at 08:44, ketmar via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 00:12:47 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> On 3/8/2015 8:43 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>>> "Walter Bright"  wrote in message news:mdj3l3$1hup$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>
>>>> Never needed to build a cross compiler.
>>>
>>> You did when adding 64-bit targets.  ie dmd is a 32->64 and 64->32
>>> cross compiler.
>>
>> Not really. I never had to compile one one machine and copy the result
>> onto another.
>
> so do you mean that if i need to compile under GNU/Linux, but have
> compiler to produce windows PE, that means that i'm not doing cross-
> compile? no, i will not copy the resulting PE anywhere, i'll test it
> right on the same box.
>
> a very interesting definition of cross-compilation and cross-compilers...

There's a difference between cross-compiling for a wholly different
platform/architecture vs. compiling on a multiarch-aware platform/cpu
(such as 64->32).