Apple is officially moving away from Intel to a custom Arm chip

[kinke]

On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 17:54:08 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On 2020-06-26 18:12, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
> [...]
>> > ... and if someone has a "big zip" (tm) with everything 
>> > included and in the right position .. for a macOS host ... 
>> > wow ...
> [...]
>
> Y'know what would be a total killer combo?  An all-in-one LDC 
> package that contains everything you need to cross compile from 
> any platform to any other platform. Including full linkers 
> and/or system libraries necessary to generate fully-runnable 
> executables (this point is important, because e.g. I can't 
> cross-compile from Linux to MacOS without separately installing 
> a MacOS dev environment, because LDC doesn't come with a linker 
> for that, unlike LDC-windows).

The linker would be the simple part; LLD isn't ready for macOS 
yet though, most likely because Apple prefers a totally closed 
ecosystem with everything under their control. But it's being 
worked on.
Redistributing their libraries is probably much harder, I doubt 
they'll allow that, just like Microsoft doesn't allow that. The 
MinGW-based libs shipped with DMD and LDC, to provide the 
out-of-the-box experience for Windows targets, have been *a lot* 
of work from Rainer's and my side (we're talking unpaid 
man-weeks).

Some years ago, I've posted an unfinished Dockerfile going into 
this direction, merging the available prebuilt LDC packages to a 
fat Docker image. No feedback at all IIRC.

Wrt. automating the last mile (actually, the last few inches), 
setting up ldc2.conf, I've repeatedly stated that generalizing 
Adam's little Android tool would clearly be my choice. Sebastian 
Koppe promised to do that, but he's probably quite busy at the 
moment.

Anyone can do that though, it's absolutely no rocket science, and 
if help is needed, don't hesitate to ask us LDC people.

But as long as people prefer to hang out in the forum instead of 
getting actual stuff done in form of contributing code, nothing 
will improve.