On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Jason House <jason.james.ho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Daniel Gibson Wrote: > >> Am 19.04.2011 03:09, schrieb Jason House: >> > Looking at https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads I see that every >> > file is compiled for windows and has no releases for any other platforms. >> > I assume this is probably just an artifact of what the main developer(s) >> > use, but it makes me wonder. How stable is GDC on other platforms? >> >> It's mainly developed on Linux. There are compiled Windows versions because >> compiling it on windows is such a pain in the ass. >> If you're using another Platform (Linux/OSX/FreeBSD) compile it yourself >> or install it from your distributions repository (there are GDC packages >> for Debian and Ubuntu, for example. Only for D1, though) :) >> >> Cheers, >> - Daniel > > I'm interested in D2 support under Ubuntu. I've compiled GDC from source in > the past (before the project was resumed/forked). It took forever and had a > lot of dependencies that I had to install, etc... Why is there a D1 package > and not a D2 package? >
As far as I remember, the dependencies are the same as GCC, which isn't actually that much. It takes a while if you don't specify "--disable-bootstrap" to keep GCC from building itself three times and verifying that the last two times are identical.
