Building DMD on OpenBSD

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 17 July 2017 at 18:42:39 UTC, Anonymous wrote:
> On Monday, 17 July 2017 at 17:18:23 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> Unfortunately, dmd has not kept porters in mind and 
>> hasn't kept the C++ version updated, or kept a workflow 
>> that enables easy bootstrapping:
>>
>> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/xgtbpcvbikxlilanrzqa@forum.dlang.org
>>
>> You will have to build druntime and phobos for 2.067 also and 
>> collect it all in a different location, which you could invoke 
>> to bootstrap a new dmd.  You may run into issues related to 
>> D/C++ integration when building the latest dmd, as that 
>> hasn't been tested on OpenBSD, only FreeBSD.
>>
>> Why do you want the latest dmd on OpenBSD?  I ask because it 
>> will likely require some work, though likely not a lot.
>
> I've already tried building 2.067 druntime by mistake and 
> run into problems. Most are resolvable by just adding 
> TARGET_OPENBSD next to TARGET_FREEBSD. But yeah, it's 
> gonna take some work. I want it because I'm using OpenBSD 
> as my main OS and I have a project that I want to port to D.
>
> Btw I should've built the `install` target (got confused 
> by the wiki). Now I get:
>
> cp: ../ini/openbsd/bin64/dmd.conf: No such file or directory
>
> which is more understandable.

Alright, there was a contributor who recently got ldc working on 
NetBSD, take a look at his PRs as a guide for what you'll likely 
have to do:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3AnrTQgc
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3AnrTQgc
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3AnrTQgc

OpenBSD PRs welcome! :)

In the meantime, you can see that I've raised this bootstrap 
issue internally and hopefully we can make it easier for future 
porters.