[dmd-internals] Is there a way to compile DMD for FreeBSD 8.1?

[Daniel Kozak]

maybe you can just implement  _rtld_addr_phdr as a library and links againt
it?. I remember doing something like that for non supported C runtimes
(musl ...) in the past

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 7:38 PM Martin Kroček via dmd-internals <
dmd-internals at puremagic.com> wrote:

> Now dmd can be compiled only for FreeBSD 11.
>
> But I have old server with FreeBSD 8.1 64bit and i need to install dmd on
> it.
>
> The main problem in function _rtld_addr_phdr in function
> findDSOInfoForAddr in file druntime/src/rt/sections_elf_shared.d
> This function does not exists on FreeBSD 8.1 64bit
>
> What's wrong with findDSOInfoForAddr?
> Can anyone make changes in dmd source code and try to find any way write
> function findDSOInfoForAddr without _rtld_addr_phdr?
>
>
> I find my own way, but it is very stupid way...
> I download dmd.2.066.1.freebsd-64 it works on 8.1, but very old version.
> I changed findDSOInfoForAddr to linux version without _rtld_addr_phdr
> Then I download dmd.2.067.0 source, changed findDSOInfoForAddr and compile
> it with dmd 2.066.1
> Then I download dmd.2.068.0 source changed findDSOInfoForAddr and compile
> it with dmd 2.067.0
> and more and more times
> Now I successfully builded version dmd.2.080.0 :-)
>
> It is good for me, but... It is very stupid way
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