[dmd-internals] Building Phobos and druntime as a dylib on Mac OS X

[Brad Roberts]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Walter Bright wrote:

> On 12/2/2011 12:19 PM, Alex wrote:
> > Just FYI, LLVM 3.0 has officially deprecated llvm-gcc in favor of
> > Clang and DragonEgg.
> 
> I expect that soon we'll switch to llvm for dmd on the Mac. Just not this
> upcoming release.
> 
> It's good to use multiple compilers to compile dmd, such tends to flush out
> latent source code bugs.

I don't remember what the problems were, but there were definitly problems 
with using llvm on lion when Sean first upgraded the box the tester runs 
on so we switched it back to gcc.  At some point, someone will have to 
take the plunge and figure out what the issue(s) was(were).