On Wednesday, 25 April 2018 at 13:36:50 UTC, Rel wrote:
This is nice to hear, but just to make it clear, what steps do
I need to take to for example build a Mac OSX binary on Windows
or Linux? Can I just download libs from prebuilt LDC for Mac
OSX, put them somewhere in my current LDC installation and it
will work?
In theory yes, in practice unfortunately no, see [1]. You would
also need the macOS SDK. In short, the LLD linker does not
support some magic linker symbols that LDC is dependent on.
I've created a Dockerfile that uses LDC to cross-compile
targeting macOS. It does not use the LLD linker. Note, the base
Docker image pulls the macOS SDK from a Dropbox account. I've
compiled this [3] repositories using that image.
I'm also waiting so much for LDC to be independent of MS Visual
Studio libs, and ship MinGW libs with the installation or
something. I thought you had some troubles getting LLVM to work
with MinGW libs, is it still true?
Apparently the MinGW libraries are too old. LDC requires the
libraries from Visual Studio 2015 (I think) or later.
[1] https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/2662
[2]
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/docker-ldc-darwin/blob/master/Dockerfile
[3] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/d_webkit_test
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/Jacob Carlborg
