== Quote from Christian Kamm ([email protected])'s article > The first version of LDC (http://www.dsource.org/projects/ldc), the LLVM > based compiler for version one of the D programming language has been > released for x86-32 Linux. Get it here: > http://www.incasoftware.de/~kamm/ldc/ldc-0.9.tbz2 > We had already announced this release during the Tango conference in > September (we hope the video of our presentation will be out soon), but - > as was to be expected - it took a bit longer than planned. > LDC ships with a precompiled Tango rev 4237 and passes all except two of > Tango's unittests (io.digest.Md2 and text.locale.Posix fail). DStress > results also look favorable. The chances are good that your code will work > with it too! > There are several known issues, the most severe being: > * LDC does not compile DWT successfully for unknown reasons > * an LLVM 2.4 bug sometimes leads to linker errors when unreachable code is > optimized away > * LDC doesn’t fully follow the D calling convention (but it's close!) > * we inherit every DMD-frontend related bug in the D bug tracker > * … there are more in our tracker > If you encounter a bug, please check our bug tracker and create a new ticket > if the issue isn’t listed yet. Maybe you are feeling adventurous and want > to try fixing it yourself; in that case take a look at our getting started > guide. > LDC could support other platforms. Furthest along so far are > * x86-64 Linux: needs people to start fixing smaller bugs, exception bug > (LLVM issue) > * x86-32 Mac: small runtime issues, needs tests > * x86-32 Windows: exceptions not supported (LLVM issue) > but support for these platforms won’t improve on its own! Several friendly > people have offered their help - we need more of those! > For those with big CTFE memory needs, we have an experimental version of LDC > available > http://www.incasoftware.de/~kamm/ldc/ldc-0.9-gc.tbz2 > which has the compile-time garbage collector enabled. In the future, we're > going to experiment with a forward reference hack, but right now it still > introduces too many regressions. > Feedback and questions are appreciated and should go to the mailing list: > [email protected]. Alternatively, we're often seen in #ldc on > FreeNode. > Tomas Lindquist Olsen, Christian Kamm
Also, some Win32 builds, both w/ and w/o D2 support, would be appreciated if possible. I am interested in playing around with LDC on Win32 and filing bug reports, etc. even if exception handling is broken. I just tried to build LDC myself and got some ridiculous, inscrutible error messages that I probably won't get to troubleshooting too soon. If someone more familiar w/ LDC has a decent build environment set up already, please post some builds.
