gdc on Ubuntu!

[Adam Burton]

Neal Becker wrote:

> Adam Burton wrote:
> 
>> Pablo Ripolles wrote:
>> 
>>> Witold Baryluk Wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dnia Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:16:41 -0800
>>>> Walter Bright <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> napisa³/a:
>>>> 
>>>> > Jason House wrote:
>>>> > > Any plans on getting dmd in as a package in ubuntu too?
>>>> > 
>>>> > The problem is that dmd gets updated so frequently...
>>>> 
>>>>
>>
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?D__Tutorial/InstallingDCompiler#MethodFour-Debian
>>>> (it is working also in Ubuntu)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> It is updated by me practicly about one day after dmd release.
>>>> 
>>>> dmd2-nonfree is also pacakged.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Witold Baryluk, aleph0
>>> 
>>> But the problem is that those binaries can only be installed on an i386
>>> arch and not on an amd64 version of ubuntu... thats a pity...
>>> 
>>> Pablo
>> I am running amd64 and they are there, working just fine.
> 
> Can you build a shared library with it?
Unfortunately not, however I downloaded the deb-src and added -fPIC to the
makefile stuff and now I can (not that I tested whether I can link to the
shared library, just test that it can make them although I would like to
assume that they are use-able).

Adam