On Tuesday, 8 January 2013 at 21:57:17 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
We *could* write a cross-compiler, of course, but it still requires that you first target the D compiler (written in D) to the new platform, and then cross-compile itself to that platform. Whereas with DMD, you just use the target platform's C++ compiler and you're up and running.
…except that you can't actually use that compiler for anything, because – wait for it – it still needs to be retargeted for the new platform. What kind of new system are you thinking of for which the first use case would be compiling x86 executables?
David
