On 23 Jul 2014 06:25, "Timo Sintonen via D.gnu" <d.gnu@puremagic.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday, 22 July 2014 at 22:13:15 UTC, John Carter wrote: >> >> So for various reasons I see potential to use a gdc on an Altera FPGA with a nios2 softcore running embedded linux. >> >> Given gdc on linux exists, gdc arm port exists, gcc nios2 back end exists.... >> >> Leaves me wondering... how hard could it be to get gdc targetting Nios2? >> >> Any "this is how to do these things" type guides out there? > > > I do not know this system but should be possible. > Maybe this is the starting point: > http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/Installation > > At the end of the page there is a link to cross compiler page. In that page there is 4 different ways people have used. > > First forget D and try to build a C only toolset. If this works then build c++
I'd skip step one and just go straight to building C++ first. Given that gcc is no longer written in C. Iain