Arm binaries

[kinke]

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).

[I'm mainly interested in running the testsuite and checking if 
there's something still missing.]