On 24 July 2016 at 19:00, dan via D.gnu <d.gnu@puremagic.com> wrote: > One of my machines (running ubuntu mate 16.04) did some update and gdc is no > longer able to compile a library that i like to use (gtkd). > > So i want to build a gdc using an earlier front-end to avoid the problem. > > However, i don't know what front end is compiled into gdc, so i'm unclear on > which front-end to try get an earlier version of. > > If i run the command > gdc --version > it gives me the gcc version. > > The command > gdc --verbose --version > gives a lot more information, but i can't tell the front end version from > that either. > > Even running commands like > strings /usr/bin/gdc | grep ..... > doesn't seem to reveal the version. (I think the version is probably 2.06* > but '2.06' and '206' do not appear in the strings.) > > Nevertheless i'm sure the information must be there. > > TIA for any info!
Later versions will write this out during compilation of a file under -v. $ gdc -v test.d # ... version v2.068.2 # ... For earlier versions, there is a universal way to do it in code. pragma(msg, __VERSION__);
