Cross platform android ldc compiler

[Gerald via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 17 June 2016 at 11:48:23 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to share an idea with you. I do not know how far I will
> come myself with this idea due to my lack of linux and ldc 
> knowledge.
>
> There is a great virtualization tool called docker. With this
> tool it is possible to create images of software tools. This 
> images
> will run out of the box on every system (mac/linux/windows).
>
> I think of a docker image containing ldc and all necessary 
> dependencies
> for compiling an android/ios application. The D source code you
> can store in a shared directory between your host system and the
> docker virtual system. The docker image could in addition 
> provide
> a web interface to start the compilation/linking process.
>
> In the end, if you have the docker image, you will have s.th. 
> like a
> "D android compiler as a service" which works on every major
> operation system. Just install docker and select the image from 
> the free
> docker marketplace.

Docker doesn't run natively on Windows and OSX, it requires a VM 
such as VirtualBox, since it depends on linux kernel features 
like cgroups. IMHO, a better solution for a development 
environment then docker would be Vagrant 
(https://www.vagrantup.com) as this is the sort of use case it is 
designed around and it is based on VMs from the get-go (though it 
can work with docker as a provider as well),