On 02/06/2011 13:54, Michel Fortin wrote:
On 2011-06-02 07:49:25 -0400, Robert Clipsham
<[email protected]> said:
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)
Current state the OSX toolchain:
- Problems getting gdb recognize debug symbols. Perhaps this can be
alleviated by replacing gdb with a fresh GNU version instead of
Apple's... I haven't tested. Ideally, DMD would generate symbols that
Apple's gdb understands.
I assume Apple will eventually be moving to LLDB, it could be a good
idea to see about adding some preliminary D support to clang, that would
sort this out. Alternatively, there are patches for older gdb versions
(they need some tweaking to work with Apple's gdb, I've done it before
but never saved the modified patch).
- Half-baked Xcode 4 support in D for Xcode. You can rely on Xcode 3 in
the meanwhile. Given the Xcode plugin API is private and undocumented,
it's not as trivial as it should be.
Again, perhaps some tweaking to clang would simplify this somewhat? At
least for code completion/syntax highlighting/errors, not sure about
anything else. I'm currently using vim due to the lack of XCode 4 support.
- It might be nice to add a D parser to Interface Builder so it
automatically recognize outlets and actions in D files that have
Objective-C objects (thanks to D/Objective-C). I'd guess this is a
private API too, but I haven't verified. Not having that is just an
inconvenience however, since you can always add them manually in the IB
file too.
- I don't think you need to do anything for Instruments (and the
underlying dtrace) to work with D code... except perhaps make debug
symbols work so stack traces include line numbers. Perhaps one would
want to create a custom instrument to observe the GC in druntime.
The lack of line numbers in debug info on OS X is something that's
really annoying me, I may look into this in the future should I get
chance - if someone doesn't beat me to it of course. Wouldn't be the
first time I'd spent a week playing with dmd's debug info to get it
working...
I don't have much time to work on D for Xcode at the moment, mostly
because I'm putting my spare time into developing D/Objective-C these
days. But I'd be glad to accept pull requests for D for Xcode.
<https://github.com/michelf/d-for-xcode>
Best of luck with this! Again, I doubt I'll have time to work on D for
XCode.
--
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/
