Shipping the DMD compiler with code

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-11-01 16:47, Colin Grogan wrote:
> I have a project I may need to write that is pretty performance
> intensive, but also needs to be quite customiseable.
>
> We previously had this done with Perl, and the customising came from
> adding functions to a file and the main script would call those
> functions as required.
> Problem is, the Perl program is performing very slowly.
>
> Im thinking of doing this with D, and using string mixins to add in
> customised functions at compile time. All well and good I think.
>
> However, I dont want to have the hassle of telling users to install a D
> compiler on their systems.
> Ideally, the user should be able to unzip this tool and run it with rdmd.
>
> Is it possible to ship the D compiler with the code, and not have to
> worry about any libs and config files being missing?

Due to license issue you're not allowed to distribute the DMD without 
permission from Walter, which he usually give. But perhaps you could 
tell the user to download the DMD zip themselves.

> I'm specifically thinking about libphobos.a and dmd.conf, can they just
> be in the same folder as the D compiler or do they need to be in
> /usr/lib and /etc ?

The DMD from the zip will work out of the box. No need to install 
anything. Just download and unpack the zip.

You could also create a tool that downloads and unzip the compiler. Then 
you might want to take a look at DVM, which already does that:

https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dvm

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg