GDC for ARM MacOS / OSX

[Iain Buclaw]

On Thursday, 22 August 2024 at 16:56:06 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
>
> If I understand Iain’s reply correctly, the showstopper was 
> lack of support for AArch64 / MacOS in GCC at the time. Has 
> that situation improved by now ?
>
> If the situation now makes either downloading or building GDC / 
> AArch64 / MacOS from sources possible, would someone be kind 
> enough to knock up a shell script for me ?
>
> NB I do have a working GDC/Linux on an x86/64 box now, so I can 
> compile D programs on that machine, with GDC, and also to 
> AArch64 using LDC on my Mac M2 machine.

I haven't seen anything being posted or committed to GCC mainline 
around aarch64-darwin support. Despite getting emails of recent 
activity coming from the fork in github, I suspect it won't be 
made available for review in time for the feature freeze in 
September/October.

If Iain S. is attending the Cauldron this year, I'll catch up 
with him in 3 weeks to find out where GCC support is at.

I know for at least the last two releases it's been possible to 
build GCC *on* a Mac M1/M2, just not *for* a Mac M1/M2.