On Friday, 9 March 2018 at 03:09:16 UTC, dangbinghoo wrote:
hi all,
I think the D community should make more effort to make Dlang
more easier to use on embedded Linux(mostly are arm and mips,
powerpc).
currently, LDC seems to be more complete, but we can only see a
hundred words on the wiki about the cross-compiling for arm.
I'm working in a company now for IOT market. We have a lot of
things like embedded linux systems: has a basic linux kernel,
uclibc/eglibc system, built using buildroot or yocto.
for such a device, we need to write lost of code for dealing
networking, web interface, database storage and sometimes data
algorithm.
And, For most of the devices on the market, like routers,
fiber-port routers, ethernet switches, and most of the
termination system made by Cisco, Broadcom, Huawei and others
running at least millions of lines of C code on the embedded
linux system.
So, We have very big chance for spreading to these market. D is
really syntax-clean and provides more productive.
We need tutorial for cross-compiling a whole d project for the
ARM, MIPS linux systems, and we need the cross-compile
toolchain ready to download.
so, any ideas?
I'm working in BAS(Building Automation System) sector, and I use
Dlang daily for some advance products targeting ARM/Mips boards.
D on Glibc/Linux/ARM works great today! It is well supported and
getting LDC to cross-compile is as easy as those 100 and so words
say! I'm using Ubuntu shell on Windows (WSL) and this makes
things even more exciting. Actually the hardest part is getting
the C cross tool-chain for your system, not LDC, I find this
pretty amusing.
Recently I had to port the software to uClibc/Linux/ARM, hence my
latest efforts on the port have followed with some patches for
Druntime, Phobos and LDC. I think, minus 2 PRs, it is pretty
close to complete. On my target system I've got it working
including vibe.d.
I suggest that you give it a try, and if you find issues
contribute!
