[dmd-internals] Building Phobos and druntime as a dylib on Mac OS X

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Fri Dec 2 11:47:14 PST 2011


On Dec 1, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
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> On 30 nov 2011, at 23:08, Michel Fortin wrote:
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>> Don't expect the Apple supplied version of GCC to ever get this. Apple stopped merging the GNU trunk of GCC in their own after it was relicensed under GPLv3. They're still maintaining their own 4.2.x branch, but most of their efforts are going to LLVM and Clang.
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> I wonder if that means that DMD should start to use Clang as linker instead of GCC.

llvm-gcc will exist for quite a while yet, I think.  But the transition to clang would be a good step regardless.


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