Bug 159196 – dgcc: support for D language in gcc

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mark 2006-12-27 04:15:28 UTC]

It would be a nice feature to have support for the D language in gcc -- including a useflag to enable it (like "D" or "dgcc").
There are some libraries, interfaces/wrappers and programs in/for D available (e.g. mysql-binding, SDL, OpenGL, games, ...).

There is a gcc-patch at http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/ which supports most OSes gentoo supports and it can be used as crosscompiler too.

It seems to be pretty easy to apply the patch to the gcc-sources, but I don't know how to change the gcc-ebuild to do this.

More information about the D language can be found here:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_%28programming_language%29

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2006-12-27 07:22:05 UTC]

it doesnt support gcc-4.1.x though (going by their homepage)

if i'm mistaken, i'll take another look

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-01-14 21:32:51 UTC]

*** Bug 162108 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2007-02-17 01:06:47 UTC]

new version supports 4.1

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2007-02-17 11:01:21 UTC]

ive added support for the language to toolchain.eclass, but gcc-4.1.2 ICEs when building with DGCC-0.22 added on, so i'm not going to add the final piece to the ebuild

if you want to test locally, just add this line to your gcc ebuild (3.4.6 or 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 or whatever):
D_VER="0.22"

then emerge gcc with USE=d and you're set

[Comment 5 Sean Fritz 2007-03-09 23:35:52 UTC]

FYI:

http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/
March 5, 2007

Version 0.23 has been released. GDC now supports 64-bit targets.

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This should be re-opening since it's still not possible to build D without manually hacking ebuilds.

[Comment 6 brian-schott 2007-03-10 02:23:30 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> ive added support for the language to toolchain.eclass, but gcc-4.1.2 ICEs when
> building with DGCC-0.22 added on, so i'm not going to add the final piece to
> the ebuild
> 
> if you want to test locally, just add this line to your gcc ebuild (3.4.6 or
> 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 or whatever):
> D_VER="0.22"
> 
> then emerge gcc with USE=d and you're set
> 

Setting D_VER="0.23" in the ebuild and emerging gcc-4.1.1-r3 works on my AMD64 system.

----
import std.stdio;

void main()
{
        char[] gd = "Thanks Gentoo Developers!";
        foreach(char c; gd)
                writef(c);
        writefln();
}
----
(~) gdc temp.d -o temp && ./temp
Thanks Gentoo Developers!

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2007-03-10 13:58:56 UTC]

should be in gcc-4.1.2 and gcc-3.4.6 now, cheers