On Saturday, 30 March 2019 at 14:18:05 UTC, kinke wrote:
On Friday, 29 March 2019 at 20:40:08 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
Yay, latest stable ldc was added alongside rdmd, ldmd2,
dustmite and ddemangle tools for both ldc and dmd!
It's not quite clear to me what your goals are. Official DMD
and LDC packages are portable, don't require any external
dependencies either and ship with these tools.
Your DMD builds are 64-bit and compiled with LDC, vs. 32-bit
and DMD of official builds, so that's an improvement.
I downloaded your LDC build and after a quick glance noticed
that it's 32-bit (?) and contains
* just the x86 and x86_64 LLVM backends (e.g., no support for
WebAssembly and dcompute),
* a phobos.lib merging both druntime and Phobos (DMD-style,
unlike official LDC),
* NO debug and LTO versions of druntime/Phobos,
* NO dynamicCompile/JIT and compiler-rt libraries (e.g., needed
for profiling),
* superfluous imports (the internal/hidden gc and rt packages),
* NO imports/ldc/gccbuiltins*.di,
* NO readme and license files,
* NO `-link-defaultlib-shared=false` in the config file, so
that linking DLLs with `-shared` probably fails,
* the static MS libs which cannot be officially redistributed
(license...) but allow people to generate binaries not
depending on the MS runtime DLLs.
Once your goals are clearer, there may be much simpler
solutions, e.g., augmenting the official LDC builds by the MS
libs instead of the MinGW-based ones.
Hi, thanks for a reply.
The goal is to provide a complete solution to build an ordinary d
app without having visual studio installed.
Static libs for imports are taken from a pelles c compiler and
can be redistributed, i'll add a notice and license files.
Dmd for now can only work with omf libs and link only 32 bit
apps, ldc - with mingw libs.
Many packages on code.dlang.org uses coff format, so at least for
me other variants are not acceptable.
LTO version of phobos/runtime is on the list with some other
features.
