releasing a d program

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On Saturday, 13 September 2014 at 22:37:05 UTC, Vlad Levenfeld 
wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance but I've really got no idea how this works -
> I've got a program I've been building in D on Linux and I can
> move it between Linux machines but only if I install all of the
> dependencies (and modify some of the code). I want to release
> something like a precompiled binary or installer package for
> Windows, Mac, possibly Android, iPhone, etc. Just something for
> testing, for now. Something that can just install and run 
> without
> stressing the user out. Where do I start?

This actually may be a question much more appropriate to main D 
newsgroup than you think :) I am afraid there are no clear 
guidelines.

In my personal opinion you can't and shouldn't do that. It is not 
that different from releasing C or any other native application 
really - pretending portable releases are possible is just asking 
for some trouble, sooner or later. I have yet to see a single 
problem that tries to do that with satisfactory result.

For best compatibility between Linux distributions you should 
read about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base ; as 
for other operating system I doubt there can be anything better 
than sticking to official distribution guidelines for that 
platform.

I think best course of action is to simply make source code as 
cross-platform as possible (and document all assumptions) so that 
any interested party can provide a native package. But of course 
I am biased being one of inafamous linux package maintainers.