interest in a D compiler ?

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Genone · Post by **Genone** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 9:18 am

I find the D language from http://www.digitalmars.com/d/ very interesting, although I haven't used it much yet. In case someone else is interested, I put together an ebuild for the compiler:

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# Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

RESTRICT="nomirror"

S="${WORKDIR}/${P}"
DESCRIPTION="Compiler, library and tools for the D language"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.digitalmars.com/d/"
SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.zip"
LICENSE="Artistic as-is"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~x86"
IUSE=""

RDEPEND="sys-devel/gcc"

src_install() {
	cd ${WORKDIR}/dmd

	# rename to make sure we don't overwrite files from another package
	mv bin/dumpobj bin/dmd-dumpobj
	mv bin/obj2asm bin/dmd-obj2asm

	dobin bin/{dmd,dmd-dumpobj,dmd-obj2asm}
	dolib lib/libphobos.a
	dohtml html/d/*
	dodoc bin/readme.txt license.txt

	# the source files are important, or the compiler won't 
	# find the library functions
	dodir usr/lib/dmd
	cp -r src/phobos/* ${D}/usr/lib/dmd/

	# config file to set the path for the source files
	dodir etc/env.d
	echo "DFLAGS=\"-I/usr/lib/dmd\"" > ${D}/etc/env.d/40dflags
}

If you want to use this don't forget to run

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env-update && source /etc/profile

after the emerge.

EDIT: spelling

dma · Post by **dma** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 2:33 pm

Interesting. I might give it a try. However, their web page needs some corrections regarding C++ and C#.

Anacific · Post by **Anacific** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 9:07 pm

Interesting indeed. I'll give this a try once I have some free time.

ssvb · Post by **ssvb** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 7:38 pm

Looks like it is a very promising language. By the way, there is also GCC frontend for D language: http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GccFrontEnd
Having ebuild for GCC based D compiler would be interesting too (open source and more supported platforms).

Caffeine · Post by **Caffeine** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 4:33 pm

I've just discovered D. Looks really promising. The ebuilds for the GCC front end (gdc) and the runtime library (phobos) are in bugzilla:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48136

BugBuster · Post by **BugBuster** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 8:06 pm

I've had an ebuild for dmd in portage, but somebody deleted it.
Nobody likes my ebuilds for gdc so there will not be support for D in Gentoo....

Caffeine · Post by **Caffeine** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 5:35 am

Why didn't they like it? I found an ebuild for dmd in portage and it seemed to work fine.

Genone · Post by **Genone** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 7:39 am

Are you talking about #48136 ? The bug isn't even a week old and packages with versions like 0.0.1_rc5 are a bit discouraging (but challenging at the same time). Maybe I'll look into D more once I find some use for it. As a sidenote, I never put dmd into portage because of upstream restrictions, see this thread.

BugBuster · Post by **BugBuster** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 10:12 am

The frontend does not have a real version. Its announced as 1e which did not fit. Maybe I should call it 0.8.1-r5.

Caffeine · Post by **Caffeine** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 10:32 am

BugBuster, the homepage for the GDC front end is http://home.earthlink.net/~dvdfrdmn/d/

Also, 1f is released, but I guess you're on the mailing list also.

I've modified you're ebuild (just substituted 1e for 1f) and am building it now. Patching seemed to work fine. I'll let you know if it builds.

Edit: No go.

Genone · Post by **Genone** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 7:09 pm

FYI: 1e and 1f (or 0.1e or 0.0.1e, but not 0.1e.0) would be valid version numbers for portage.

Deathwing00 · Post by **Deathwing00** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 11:22 pm

I have a question about this... ADA was done using C, so has been D made using C too?

Caffeine · Post by **Caffeine** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 7:50 am

Anyone tried the latest gdc in bugzilla?
I get the following error...

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gdc -o helloWorld helloWorld.d
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.3/../../../libphobos.a(d_os_dep.o)(.text+0x37c): In function `GC_write_fault_handler':
/var/tmp/portage/phobos-0.8.2-r7/work/gcc-3.3.3/gcc/d/phobos/boehm-gc/d_os_dep.c:2334: undefined reference to `GC_err_printf'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.3/../../../libphobos.a(d_os_dep.o)(.text+0x3a2):/var/tmp/portage/phobos-0.8.2-r7/work/gcc-3.3.3/gcc/d/phobos/boehm-gc/d_os_dep.c:2251: undefined reference to `GC_arrays'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.3/../../../libphobos.a(d_os_dep.o)(.text+0x40a):/var/tmp/portage/phobos-0.8.2-r7/work/gcc-3.3.3/gcc/d/phobos/boehm-gc/d_os_dep.c:2264: undefined reference to `GC_err_printf'

andersRson · Post by **andersRson** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:01 pm

bumping this age-old thread..
There has been some updates to the gdc compiler lately, does anyone still care about this?
GDC has been updated to match dmd version 0.102. I tried to modify the ebuilds from bugzilla, but it wouldn't compile..=(
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48136
Here's my modified gdc ebuild if anyone's interested:
http://www.runesson.info/anders/gdc-0.102.ebuild
I didn't post it at bugzilla because it wouldn't compile for me, not sure if it's something I missed, or what. The only difference is the tarball downloaded, and one of the patches has been removed (patch-1f-20040427)
This is only for gdc, not phobos since i didn't get that far.

meyerm · Post by **meyerm** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:55 pm

Hi there,

I no longer see any dmd/gdc/digitalmars ebuilds in portage. Were they deleted or do I simply not find them? Is there still interest from some devs in D or is it considered dead/boring/whatever?

Thanks,
Marcel

Letharion · Post by **Letharion** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:08 pm

Bumping this thread because I have the same question as the meyerm.
Bugs 118209 and 48136 have been modified fairly recently, so that should mean D is still "in progress", right?

fuzzybyte · Post by **fuzzybyte** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:04 am

I really would like to see dmd or gdc in portage! has there been any progress lately?

Letharion · Post by **Letharion** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:35 pm

I found this interesting link

with an overlay for dmd.

http://www.dsource.org/projects/gentoo

HexFex · Post by **HexFex** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:48 pm

I really would like to see gdc in portage, too.

sonicbhoc · Post by **sonicbhoc** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:36 pm

We should pitch in and help that guy write ebuilds for the dsource projects we are most interested in, starting with gdc of course

I wouldn't mind spending some time over the weekends messing with that.

fuzzybyte · Post by **fuzzybyte** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:01 am

Letharion wrote:I found this interesting link with an overlay for dmd.

http://www.dsource.org/projects/gentoo

dmd in that overlay is obsolete!

sonicbhoc · Post by **sonicbhoc** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:18 pm

Well, could we make an up-to-date ebuild and send it to the overlay maintainer? dmd and gdc ebuilds are what we should do first - I'd like to help but I don't have free time until the weekend...

Letharion · Post by **Letharion** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:41 pm

Obsolete? Wasn't 1.0 just released? I don't know very much about D, but it looks very up to date to me.

ikeathesofa · Post by **ikeathesofa** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:35 am

I would also like to see gdc in portage. I really want to learn and use D.

Anything I can do to help? I don't know much about ebuilds but I'm willing to learn.

fuzzybyte · Post by **fuzzybyte** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:02 am

Letharion wrote:Obsolete? Wasn't 1.0 just released? I don't know very much about D, but it looks very up to date to me.

I guess they just managed to updated it before you looked

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