Arm binaries

[Joseph]

On Thursday, 2 November 2017 at 23:57:15 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 17:39:40 UTC, kinke wrote:
>> On Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 17:16:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 14:54:17 UTC, Johannes Loher 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, 26 October 2017 at 16:58:59 UTC, Johan Engelen 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Wednesday, 25 October 2017 at 10:03:37 UTC, Andrea 
>>>>> Fontana wrote:
>>>>>> On Wednesday, 25 October 2017 at 07:01:59 UTC, Joakim 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wednesday, 25 October 2017 at 06:54:54 UTC, Andrea 
>>>>>>> Fontana wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Provided link redirect me to github releases page. But 
>>>>>>>> there's no arm binaries available.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Only a couple ldc devs have linux/ARM boards and they're 
>>>>>>> not usually able to provide a build.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> QEMU can emulate armhf, you don't need a board, i guess.
>>>>>> By the way on aliexpress an orangepi costs 6.99$ and run 
>>>>>> linux on arm.
>>>>>
>>>>> Great! So can I write you down as the person who uploads 
>>>>> the ARM binaries upon beta/release?  ;-) ;P
>>>>>
>>>>> - Johan
>>>>
>>>> I own a Raspberry Pi 3. If somebody walks me through the 
>>>> necessary steps, I'd be willing to provide binaries for 
>>>> ARMv7.
>>>
>>> Another option would be to cross-compile the native linux/ARM 
>>> ldc with a bootstrap ldc cross-compiler for linux/x64, as I 
>>> did with the Android/ARM package I setup for the Termux 
>>> Android app:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/packages/ldc
>>>
>>> That works well for me with Android/ARM, might work for 
>>> linux/ARM too.
>>
>> Yeah that's probably what we should be looking into.
>>
>> I gave QEMU a try (in my Linux VirtualBox ;)); after 26 hours 
>> of building (!), I finally have a LLVM 5.0.0. For other 
>> interested guys: I can recommend following 
>> https://translatedcode.wordpress.com/2016/11/03/installing-debian-on-qemus-32-bit-arm-virt-board/. I gave it 2 gigs of memory and 3 CPU cores (but QEMU itself seems to use only a single CPU host core).
>
> Follow-up: LDC 1.5 comes with an ARMv6 hard-float package for 
> Linux again: 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.5.0
> It was built on Debian Jessie with gcc 4.9 and includes 
> static/shared runtime libs, the LTO linker plugin and 
> dub/rdmd/dustmite/ddemangle, that's why it's not exactly tiny.
> For reference, building LDC in QEMU takes about 3 hours on my 
> machine.
>
> To spare others a few hours, I also uploaded the prebuilt LLVM 
> 5.0.0 (without LLD): 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/llvm/releases/tag/ldc-v5.0.0
> It was built with CMake variable 
> LLVM_DEFAULT_TARGET_TRIPLE=arm-none-linux-gnueabihf in order to 
> emit ARMv6 code by default, just like Debian's gcc. See 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/1988 for context.

Can you add a link to the ldc page that links to an up to date 
walkthrough on how to properly(and easily) cross compile arm 
binaries with the examples?

(I want to create some open gl demo stuff but I can't find the 
resources)