Need help to finish DMD zip/7z release generator (alpha release)

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 08:33:28 +0200
Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2013-09-04 02:53, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> 
> > The current status:
> > -----------------------
> > - OSX 10.7: Works fine. (At least it did last time I tried it, a
> > couple weeks ago. It *could* have regressed but I won't have access
> > to the machine again until maybe Sunday.)
> 
> I can test it on Mac OS X 10.8.

Great. :)

> Are you building a universal binary
> of the libraries?
> 

Yes.

> > - Debian 6 (32-bit OS): This tool isn't intended to support 32-bit
> > OSes (since it must compile both 32-bit and 64-bit phobos), but it
> > works fine up until it gets to the 64-bit stuff. If I manually
> > comment out the 64-bit stuff, then everything else works fine.
> 
> Why don't you just version that out?
> 

I'm thinking I may just add --32-bit(-only) and --64-bit(-only)
switches.

> > - Debian 6 (64-bit OS): It fails when linking the 32-bit phobos
> >    complaining that it can't link with libcurl. I'm fairly certain
> > this is because I have no freaking idea how to install the 32-bit
> >    libcurl*-*-dev on a 64-bit Debian. (I *did* install
> >    "libcurl4-openssl-dev", but I'm pretty sure it only installed for
> >    64-bit. And I can't figure out how to get the 32-bit.)
> 
> Using "apt-get install package:architecture" as suggested here:
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO
> 
> Requires Debian 7.0 or later. For Debian 6, install the the packages 
> "gcc-multilib" and "ia32-libs".
> 

I definitely have multilib on there since other stuff works 32-bit
(like rdmd). It's just libcurl that I can't seem to get 32-bit or
multilib.


> > - FreeBSD 9.1 (64-bit OS): No idea, I don't have access to a 64-bit
> >    FreeBSD machine, and my stupid Intel CPU lacks the ability to
> > run a 64-bit OS in a VM.
> 
> I can give you a help with this, if no one else beats me.
> 

Cool.