Building LDC for FreeBSD PowerPC64

[Curtis Hamilton]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 9:55 AM Curtis Hamilton <clhamilto at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 6:55 PM kinke via digitalmars-d-ldc <
> digitalmars-d-ldc at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, 11 December 2021 at 05:15:33 UTC, Curtis Hamilton
>> wrote:
>> > Unfortunately I’ve not been successful in using LDC-0.17.6 or
>> > ltsmaster to bootstrap and build a newer LDC release.
>> >
>> > But I have managed to build LDC-1.23 using GDC as the host D
>> > compiler.
>>
>> Yeah, gdc is the suggested bootstrap way. - So you got that LDC
>> to successfully build druntime and Phobos? I wouldn't have
>> thought you'd get that far ;) - there's a number of (old)
>> reported PowerPC issues on GitHub.
>>
> Yes, I’ve been successful in getting LDC to build using GDC as the host
> D.  In fact, the resulting build seems to be working well.  I did have to
> make a few changes to the code to get everything working.
>
> First, PowerPC64 uses elfv2 vice elfv1 on FreeBSD 13, so that needed to be
> changed in “driver/target machine.cop”.  I also had to update
> “druntime/src/core/sys/freebsd/config.d” for FreeBSD 13.  Most recent
> druntime has been updated.
>
> Lastly, I needed to apply the patch from @dbankov-vmware
> https://github.com/dbankov-vmware/ldc/tree/fix-for-3795
>  that allows LDC to build using static “phobos” which lets LDC to be
> independent of GDC.
>
> regards
>
I hate autocorrection, the file should be “driver/targetmachine.cpp”….
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