On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 07:01:10 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
On 3 Feb 2016 7:30 am, "Joakim via Digitalmars-d" <
[email protected]> wrote:
On Tuesday, 2 February 2016 at 18:45:20 UTC, Nikolay wrote:
I am porting LDC/phobos/druntime to NetBSD. Currently my
patch is merged
into LDC master. I have several questions about phobos/druntime
and general workflow.
As I can understand I should prepare pull requests for
phobos/druntime
master branches. LDC team will merge/cherry-pick changes into
ldc branch from master later. Is it correct workflow? Because
it means that I can’t check my patch: there is no dmd compiler
for NetBSD + phobos/druntime master branches.
You're probably better off porting dmd 2.068 first (as it's
the last dmd
written wholly in C++), using it to compile dmd git master on
NetBSD, then porting druntime and phobos master. Porting dmd
to NetBSD/x86 is likely easy: simply follow what the other BSDs
have done, as you did for ldc.
I doubt it. Using ldc/gdc usually means that it's just the
library you need to play with, not the compiler.
The problem is that ldc/gdc are not on 2.069, let alone the
just-released 2.070. So as he said, if he really wants to test
his druntime/phobos PRs against master _on_ NetBSD, he has no
choice but to port dmd. I haven't had to do so myself, but
looking at how it's been done for other BSDs, it looks fairly
easy to me.
