gdc and ldc in MacPorts

MacPortsUser via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Aug 26 08:28:32 PDT 2017


On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 22:55:20 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 18:03:22 UTC, lanphuonglien 
> wrote:
>> Whilst DMD seems to be in MacPorts, GDC and LDC appear not to 
>> be. Is this right? If it is then it is wrong – it would be 
>> great if the person handling the DMD port could be supported 
>> to get a LDC and GDC ports in place.
>>
>> I am a user of MacOS maybe once per year, but I'll help as I 
>> can.
>
> If you aren't set on MacPorts, you can use homebrew for ldc.
> With regards to gdc: A word of caution: Supporting it as a 
> separate package is a bit of a hassle, since it technically 
> lives as part of the main gcc codebase (and you actually 
> compile gcc with the D frontend enabled).

I currently use MacPorts. The latest available version of DMD on 
MacPorts is also outdated (2.0.73.2 vs 2.0.75.1). How can I 
request to get the latest version into the MacPorts repositories?


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