On 2011-06-02 07:50:20 -0400, Robert Clipsham <[email protected]> said:
On 02/06/2011 12:49, Robert Clipsham wrote:
This is pretty cool! I'd test it, but D for XCode doesn't seem to play
well with XCode 4, and my XCode 3 installation appears to have
disappeared since I installed 4. Will the complete OS X toolchain work
with this eventually? (Interface builder, instruments etc)
Does this mean in the not too distant future we'll be able to write
iPhone apps in D? :o
Define "not too distant". :-)
DMD doesn't have an ARM backend, so you'll need to port it to LDC or
GDC. It might not be that easy however since a couple of parts are in
the glue code that links to the DMD backend. But if you want to start
working on LDC/Objective-C or GDC/Objective-C, I'll try to help.
The other issue is that it currently only support Apple's Legacy
Objective-C runtime (used on 32-bit Mac OS X). iOS and 64-bit Mac OS X
uses the Modern runtime which changed most of the ABI. I'll add support
the Modern runtime eventually, but certainly not before DMD can emit
64-bit code on Mac OS X.
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Michel Fortin
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