On 02/06/2011 13:55, Michel Fortin wrote:
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.
I thought this might be the case. Unfortunately I have a million things
of my own to be working on, so I probably wouldn't have time to work on
porting it.
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.
That sounds like it's gonna be a big task! Good luck!
--
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/
