Apple is officially moving away from Intel to a custom Arm chip

[Chris]

On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 14:02:05 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 13:48:34 UTC, JN wrote:
>> Is there a guide for how to create a binary working on 
>> Raspberry Pi from Windows?
>
> I have never actually tried it, but a process similar to how 
> the android cross compiles work should do this as well.
>
> 1) get your Windows ldc set up
>
> 2) grab the arm-linux ldc package as well.
>
> 3) change your ldc.conf to use the libraries from the arm-linux 
> package when targeting arm-linux
>
> 4) Compile with the argument to ldc `-mtriple 
> arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi` or `-mtriple 
> aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu` (32 vs 64 bit target) and you should 
> be all set. (note you just use your normal Windows ldc, all 
> that changes is this -mtriple argument to change the target. Or 
> if compiling with dub, it is `dub -a platform_specifier_here`.)
>
>
> Step 3 is the relatively painful one, for android, i made a 
> program to do it automatically 
> https://github.com/adamdruppe/d_android/blob/master/android-setup.d#L232
>
>
> But we should lobby the ldc upstream to just include all the 
> configs out of the box on all systems. Maybe the libraries are 
> a separate download, but no reason not to put the config in so 
> it just works out of the box for cross compile too.

Sounds like fun! An it's been like this for years. Well, water, 
firewood, stick, stones, sparks...The D community should think 
outside the hacker box.

Also, the point that has been raised remains. DMD is a good dev 
tool. LDC would be fatal for your average debug-run cycles. But 
DMD for ARM will probably not happen, realistically seen. Apart 
from that it's important that ARM becomes a first-class citizen 
in the D world. It is important and you won't be able to put it 
on the long finger for ever.