GDC Mac X-compiler

[BCS]

In article <e6dt9g$2kp0$1 at digitaldaemon.com>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= says...
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>BCS wrote:
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>> What I have is an embedded, PPC based, controller board that I am 
>> programming on and want to get D code compiled for it. IIRC Macs use PPC 
>> and therefor I am assuming that the GDC mac compiler is generating PPC 
>> code. However, the only systems available to compile on are x86.
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>> So I need a D compiler and associated stuff that will run on an x86 and 
>> generate PPC6 ELF files.
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>I think you will need a PowerPC cross-compiler to whatever OS the board 
>runs (Linux?).

It a little known RT OS so I couldn't use anything that is OS dependent without
re-hacking Phobos internals. But if I can stay away from the GC ("and how hard
can that be..." xx-p) a lot of code could fit that bill.

>The Mac OS X / Darwin GDC versions generate Mach-O files.
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Ouch!! The system libs are ELF and I will need the final product to be ELF or
else nothing will load.

>GDC 0.18 should compile out of the box on PPC Linux, I think David said.
>You need to set the --target with configure, see GDC docs for details ?
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Well, what I have access to is x86 Linux and WinXP. So I need something that
will run on one of those and produce the needed output (PPC6 as ELF). So if it
works under PPC Linux (implying that it can make ELF [??]), that only leaves
getting the same thing to compile for an x86 box.

>--anders