On Friday, 17 October 2014 at 18:06:26 UTC, tcak wrote:
I made some research, though couldn't have found any article
about it. Is there any work that has been/is being done for
Parallax Propeller Microcontroller with D Language? Any
library, linker etc.
As far as I see on wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_Propeller), there are
ports to microcontroller's assembler for C, Java, Pascal,
Fortran.
Note: For those who don't have knowledge about it, this
microcontroller is 32 bit, and has 8 cores on it.
I haven't seen any work in this community specifically for this
platform, however, thanks to GCC, I don't think it would be too
far out of reach.
If you have the hardware, I recommend you give it try and write a
wiki about it. Here's how I would a approach it.
1. Download the Propeller GCC source code [1].
2. Clone the GDC repository for the specific GCC version that
best matches the GCC version of the PropellerGCC
3 Read and try to understand the instructions for building a
GDC cross-compiler [2]. Ask questions on the D.GNU forum [3] if
you run into trouble.
4. Adapt the instructions for the Parallax Propeller
5. If you're successful, post your instructions as a subpage if
the GDC cross-compiler wiki
6. Make a minimal D runtime as described in the Adam Ruppe's "D
for Kernel Coding" chapter in the "D Cookbook" or similar to the
ARM Cortex-M Hello World on the D wiki
7. Make a hello world program and post your instructions on the
D wiki
8. Bask in the pride and admiration of a job well done.
Mike
[1] PropellerGCC: https://sites.google.com/site/propellergcc/
[2] GDC Cross-compiler instructions:
http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/Cross_Compiler
[3] D.GNU forum: http://forum.dlang.org/group/D.gnu
[4] D Cookbook: http://wiki.dlang.org/Books
[5] ARM Cortex-M Hello World:
http://wiki.dlang.org/Minimal_semihosted_ARM_Cortex-M_%22Hello_World%22
