Compiling DMD for the iPhone simulator

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-04-26 12:20, Michel Fortin wrote:

> You are assuming those compilers linked to the iOS SDK, but they could
> be "cross compilers" in the sense that the compiler is linked to Mac
> libraries (just like a normal Mac compiler) but creates executables for
> the iOS Simulator platform. (Obviously, the ARM ones are true cross
> compilers.)

Yes, exactly. I was hoping I could do the same with DMD.

> My suspicion is that you could use the same Mac DMD compiler as long as
> all the generated code is linked with the iOS SDK. As far as I know, the
> only ABI difference is that the Objective-C runtime for the simulator is
> the Modern runtime while the Mac is still using the Legacy runtime for
> 32-bit. So you can't use the same Objective-C compiler, but beside
> Objective-C I'd expect all the generated code to be the same.

I assume I would need change DMD to use the gcc located in the iPhone 
simulator SDK instead of the "regular" one.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg