On Friday, 11 October 2013 at 07:09:17 UTC, Andrew wrote:
As Adam already said D on Pi is adventurous.
For MongoDB and web stuff, you should look into Vibe.d [0].
For parsing I would suggest Pegged [1].
Welcome to D and Happy Hacking! :)
[0] http://vibed.org/
[1] https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/Pegged
Thanks both. Well after several hours of hacking I have
spectacularly failed to build GDC on any arm based debian
environment - tried both my RPi and Cubieboard. In both cases
it fails with a pile of compilation errors.
I'm guessing that D just isn't mainstream enough at the moment
to be properly supported on Debian and yet it's too big and
complicated to build easily yourself and so it's probably a
non-starter for me at the moment. There is a pre-built package
on debian gdc-4.4 but it's too old to build vibe or dub from my
experimentation.
I guess I'll go back to plain old C.
Thanks anyway - I'll check back in a few years.
Hi, I don't know which instructions you followed, but building
GDC for the Pi was slow (overnight job) but in the end relatively
pain free for me using these instructions:
http://gdcproject.org/wiki/Raspberry%20Pi/build/Raspbian%28Hardfloat%29/GCC-Devel.
This was some time ago however (more than a year by now, wow), so
I don't know if some change has broken the process since. I don't
think I have the SD card with GDC installed anymore so I don't
know for sure which version I built at the time. I think it was
based on 2.0.59 still. See also
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/kpdcgoynlofeosxaj...@forum.dlang.org.
When I have some free time I will fire up one of my Pis and give
it a try again and report back.
Cheers,
Stefan
