On Saturday, 13 September 2014 at 22:37:05 UTC, Vlad Levenfeld
wrote:
Pardon my ignorance but I've really got no idea how this works -
I've got a program I've been building in D on Linux and I can
move it between Linux machines but only if I install all of the
dependencies (and modify some of the code). I want to release
something like a precompiled binary or installer package for
Windows, Mac, possibly Android, iPhone, etc. Just something for
testing, for now. Something that can just install and run
without
stressing the user out. Where do I start?
This actually may be a question much more appropriate to main D
newsgroup than you think :) I am afraid there are no clear
guidelines.
In my personal opinion you can't and shouldn't do that. It is not
that different from releasing C or any other native application
really - pretending portable releases are possible is just asking
for some trouble, sooner or later. I have yet to see a single
problem that tries to do that with satisfactory result.
For best compatibility between Linux distributions you should
read about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base ; as
for other operating system I doubt there can be anything better
than sticking to official distribution guidelines for that
platform.
I think best course of action is to simply make source code as
cross-platform as possible (and document all assumptions) so that
any interested party can provide a native package. But of course
I am biased being one of inafamous linux package maintainers.
