GDC support for non-windows

[Andrew Wiley]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Jason House
<jason.james.house at gmail.com> wrote:
> Daniel Gibson Wrote:
>
>> Am 19.04.2011 03:09, schrieb Jason House:
>> > Looking at https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads I see that every file is compiled for windows and has no releases for any other platforms.  I assume this is probably just an artifact of what the main developer(s) use, but it makes me wonder.  How stable is GDC on other platforms?
>>
>> It's mainly developed on Linux. There are compiled Windows versions because
>> compiling it on windows is such a pain in the ass.
>> If you're using another Platform (Linux/OSX/FreeBSD) compile it yourself
>> or install it from your distributions repository (there are GDC packages
>> for Debian and Ubuntu, for example. Only for D1, though) :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Daniel
>
> I'm interested in D2 support under Ubuntu. I've compiled GDC from source in the past (before the project was resumed/forked). It took forever and had a lot of dependencies that I had to install, etc... Why is there a D1 package and not a D2 package?
>

As far as I remember, the dependencies are the same as GCC, which
isn't actually that much. It takes a while if you don't specify
"--disable-bootstrap" to keep GCC from building itself three times and
verifying that the last two times are identical.