The new, new phobos sneak preview

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Wed Apr 8 10:18:36 PDT 2009


Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
>> I just committed all of Phobos into svn on dsource.org. That is not an
>> official release and has known and unknown bugs, limitations, and
>> rhinodemons. I expect some ripples before we stabilize, but when we will
>> we'll stabilize at a higher potential.
> 
> Will the final release support "osx" [sic] and "freebsd" too,
> or is the new Phobos going to be "Windows" and "linux" only ?
> 
>> If you want to build Phobos yourself, check out the Makefile (not
>> linux.mak; that won't work). That GNU Makefile, hosted on Linux, can
>> build the Linux lib and also the Windows lib by using wine. (I'm very
>> happy about this; now I can test on Windows and Linux without switching
>> more than a command line tweak.)
> 
> For instance, things like these look a bit hardcoded to linux:
> EXTRA_MODULES_posix = $(addprefix std/c/linux/, linux socket)
> 
> --anders

I'll need to defer such testing and answers to Walter; I don't have 
access to OSX and FreeBSD.

Andrei



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