Building DMD on SmartOS

[Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 3 May 2015 at 07:04:17 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 April 2015 at 17:39:02 UTC, flamencofantasy 
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to use D on SmartOS.
>>
>> Since there is no binary installer I tried to build DMD from 
>> source by
>> following the instructions on this page; 
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD
>>
>> Unfortunately I get this error;
>> [~/d/dmd/src]# make -f posix.mak MODEL=64
>>
>> no cpu specified, assuming X86
>> dmd idgen.d
>> make: dmd: Command not found
>> posix.mak:320: recipe for target 'idgen' failed
>> make: *** [idgen] Error 127
>
> I spent a couple hours and installed SmartOS in a VM, my first 
> time ever messing with SmartOS though I've run and developed 
> for Solaris before, to see what the status of building dmd is.  
> While it was a pain getting SmartOS configured, I was finally 
> able to build dmd 2.067 and druntime without a problem, using 
> gcc 4.7 (the clang from pkgin tried to use some linker config 
> that wouldn't work to link even basic test C++ files).  Phobos 
> now keeps failing to build on me, but only because I'm low on 
> disk space and it keeps running out of swap.
>
> However, linking a small sample file against druntime alone 
> fails, some issue with the deh_beg/deh_end sections:
>
> gcc sieve.o ./lib/libdruntime-solaris64.a -o sieve -m64 
> -lpthread -lm
> ld: fatal: symbol '_deh_beg' in file sieve.o: section 
> [15].deh_beg: size 0: symbol (address 0, size 0x4) lies outside 
> of containing section
> ld: fatal: symbol '_deh_end' in file sieve.o: section 
> [17].deh_end: size 0: symbol (address 0, size 0x4) lies outside 
> of containing section
> ld: fatal: file processing errors. No output written to sieve
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> I'll finish building phobos and mess around a bit with fixing 
> those sections.  I'll let you know if I get it to work.

I got the some error. You need a more recent binutils version.

Regards,
Kai