D2 Library Porters

[Iain Buclaw]

On 3 July 2012 11:55, Jakob Bornecrantz <wallbraker at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 July 2012 at 10:12:39 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm going to be pushing gdc-4.8 package into debian this weekend (give
>> about a fortnight for it to land in sid) - is anyone interested in porting
>> Druntime / Phobos over to the architectures that Debian supports?  I can
>> give anyone a quick crash course through building a cross compiler if they
>> need it.
>>
>> The challenge this summer is to get this list out of the red and into the
>> green. :)
>
>
> Cool.
>
> Getting D into the mingw cross compiler is something I would
> very much like to see? Is that something you are working?
>
> Cheers, Jakob.

I'm not working on it, no.  There are quite a few alterations to
binutls / gcc backend if I recall correctly that enable D2 runtime
(notably thread-local storage) to function correctly on MinGW.  These
may block the ability to make a MinGW cross-compiler also.


Regards
-- 
Iain Buclaw

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