On Thursday, 2 May 2019 at 21:08:33 UTC, James Blachly wrote:
Apologies, but the website is extremely outdated, and I cannot
find reliable, specific instructions on how to install recent
GDC on linux.
Distribution packages are often quite behind. For example,
Ubuntu 16LTS which we are still on at work max out at GDC 5.
LDC is a tarball. Is there a similarly straightforward way to
install GDC? If not, is this because we are constrained by
system-available GCC version?
Thanks all for your help.
I fear, it is not that straightforward currently, but anyway
possible with some excercise.
Slackware 14.2, I'm using, ships GCC5 as well; but I've built GCC
8 with D and installed it in /opt/gdc.
I've built binaries for GCC 7 with D 2.081.2 for Ubuntu 18.04
some time ago:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/ofowhrbeibuonqlkh...@forum.dlang.org
For building from source you can look at my Slackware build
scripts (it is plain Shell):
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/development/gcc-d/
https://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.2/development/gcc-d/gcc-d.SlackBuild
I hope I can provide some more binaries this time as soon as I
finish my work on 2.086 (probably for 2.086.1).
