On Sunday, 25 December 2016 at 19:41:38 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
Happy holidays everybody,
I'm happy to finally announce the release of new GDC binaries
at https://gdcproject.org/downloads.
Congratulations!
massive internal changes in GDC in preparation for the DDMD
frontend
Sounded very exiting what I heard from Iain recently.
* Shared library support: We added support for shared libraries
to GDC
Great, might be time to revive
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/617 soon.
* New mechanism to link system dependencies: All system
libraries
needed by phobos (-ldl, -lrt, -latomic) are detected in the
phobos ./configure script. The required dependencies are
added to a
libgphobos.spec file and installed along with the
libgphobos.so/.a
libraries. GDC then reads this file to detect the required
libraries,
so the libraries are no longer hard coded in GDC. Note for
distribution packagers: You must make sure to manually
install this
file if you do not use the standard make install command.
Sounds interesting for dmd as well.
Travis-CI should pick up the new release from now on.
Thanks for updating :)
It's actually all handled by the install.sh script, so you'll
also get the latest gdc with `curl -fsS
https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s gdc` and anything else
using that script, e.g. Travis-CI and the Heroku buildpack.
