Building DMD on OpenBSD

Seb via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jul 16 14:37:12 PDT 2017


On Sunday, 16 July 2017 at 21:05:53 UTC, Anonymous wrote:
> On Sunday, 16 July 2017 at 19:47:20 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> Auto-bootstrapping is __only__ used if no host compiler is 
>> found on the system.
>> This should only happen on esoteric platforms (not intended as 
>> an offense) like yours.
>
> So I should use digger then? I looked through its repo briefly 
> and I can't really tell if I'm gonna run into the 
> same issue or not.
> I guess another option is to build GDC and then use it to build 
> DMD.

Yes digger could work, but it's written in D and you would need 
to build it on a different OS.
How about simply building the bootstrap binary yourself then?
I think 2.067 is the last version that's still written in C++:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/tree/2.067

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