Re: Building the arm-linux-gnueabi target

2014-07-13 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via D.gnu
On 13/07/14 13:31, Johannes Pfau via D.gnu wrote: IIRC building gdc/gcc alone requires 12 hours. And you'll need swap as there's not enough ram ;-) Hmmm, I'd like to think I could build gdc-for-arm itself on my regular machine and just copy it over? ;-)

Re: Building the arm-linux-gnueabi target

2014-07-13 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via D.gnu
On 13/07/14 12:30, Johannes Pfau via D.gnu wrote: AFAIK that's not possible with GCC right now. One GCC build always targets one main architecture. Is there any reason why you can't use the binaries from http://gdcproject.org/downloads/ ? No, none at all. I just thought, since I build GDC fro

Building the arm-linux-gnueabi target

2014-07-13 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via D.gnu
Hello all, Is there a simple/trivial way to ensure that when I build GDC, I build not only the native target for my machine (x86_64) but also the arm-linux-gnueabi target? I decided it was time to start pulling out Adam Ruppe's embedded programming guide, and as a decidedly non-embedded progr

Re: DFLAGS and gdc

2014-07-10 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via D.gnu
On 08/07/14 17:58, Iain Buclaw via D.gnu wrote: My stance at the moment is that DFLAGS should be recognised by the build tool, not the compiler. I wonder if John's specific concern may be to do with how dmd uses the DFLAGS environment variable to specify the standard import and library paths.

Re: GDC updated to use 2.065

2014-06-14 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via D.gnu
On 14/06/14 13:41, Iain Buclaw via D.gnu wrote: If anyone is privileged enough to have gdc with 2.065 already, then I'd like to suggest trying out dub and building all packages in http://code.dlang.org using it, using various different compiler flags, and report back any bugs found (with nice min

Re: GDC updated to use 2.065

2014-06-12 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via D.gnu
On 12/06/14 00:50, Iain Buclaw via D.gnu wrote: Bleeding edge, see gcc.version which has the snapshot version of gcc this was last tested and verified against. However if the last conversation I had with Johannes was of any indicator, if you hold onto your horses, you may find this backported to

Re: GDC updated to use 2.065

2014-06-11 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via D.gnu
On 11/06/14 23:54, Iain Buclaw via D.gnu wrote: It's done, after 2 months brewing in development. https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/76 Oh, awesome. Congratulations and thanks. :-) Related note -- what are the recommended/required gcc sources to use? Is 4.9.0 adequate or does th