On 29 February 2016 at 09:35, Adrian Matoga via D.gnu <d.gnu@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 16:27:31 UTC, Ken Burgett wrote: > >> I am looking at doing a D project and have installed the DMD compiler on >> my 64-bit Ubuntu dev system. My target architecture to ARM, as used in the >> Raspberry PI and other systems. I need to know how I can develop code on >> Linux x86 and run it on the RPI. Any pointer to an article about this >> topic is appreciated. >> > > Download x86_64-linux-gnu toolchain targeting arm-linux-gnueabihf from [1] > (its the second row). For Raspberry Pi it works out of the box, try: > > $ /opt/arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gdc hello.d -o hello > > $ file hello > hello: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), > dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, not stripped > > To build with dub, you need to pass the --compiler flag, e.g. > > $ dub build --compiler=/opt/arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gdc > > This can even build vibe.d apps for RPi, provided that you have all target > .so files (AFAIK these are libevent, libevent_pthread, libssl and > libcrypto). > > qemu-arm-static can execute statically linked ARM linux apps right on your > PC. > > I totally forgot about this nice little feature of qemu. I have this in my old-old list of bookmarked lists for setting up a Raspbian qemu-chroot. https://superpiadventures.wordpress.com/ You can of course replace it with any derivative of Debian that supports RPI. Thanks!