BSD Config

[Joakim]

On Monday, 11 November 2013 at 17:35:29 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
> On 11/11/13 8:15 AM, Joakim wrote:
>> On Sunday, 10 November 2013 at 16:49:18 UTC, Tyro[17] wrote:
>>> This happened on OpenBSD, FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD. I am 
>>> running the 64bit version of all these
>>> operating systems. Which actually might be the problem now 
>>> that I think about it. Does DMD even
>>> support the 64bit version  of Free/OpenBSD?
>>
>> Oh, I should mention also, that there isn't general BSD 
>> support in D.  Try grepping for freebsd in
>> the source.  I just tried it on the source in the 2.063.2 zip 
>> file and I got 510 hits for freebsd,
>> 181 hits for openbsd, and 2 hits for dragonfly.  By 
>> comparison, I got 685 hits for linux.  That
>> should give you a crude but reasonable idea of how 
>> well-supported each OS is.  As for 64-bit, I
>> believe it should work on FreeBSD, but likely isn't 
>> well-tested.
>
> https://d.puremagic.com/test-results/?projectid=1
>
> FreeBSD/32 and FreeBSD/64 are both tested just as much as the 
> rest of the platforms.  That said, I'm sure that neither gets 
> the same level of usage from the community as linux or win32.

OK, good to know.  It might help 64-bit usage on FreeBSD if the 
official dlang zip file shipped with the 64-bit builds of dmd 
also, just as it does for linux, though maybe that is already the 
plan for the upcoming versions.