On 2012-04-26 11:40:57 +0000, Jacob Carlborg <[email protected]> said:
On 2012-04-26 12:20, Michel Fortin wrote:
You are assuming those compilers linked to the iOS SDK, but they could
be "cross compilers" in the sense that the compiler is linked to Mac
libraries (just like a normal Mac compiler) but creates executables for
the iOS Simulator platform. (Obviously, the ARM ones are true cross
compilers.)
Yes, exactly. I was hoping I could do the same with DMD.
My suspicion is that you could use the same Mac DMD compiler as long as
all the generated code is linked with the iOS SDK. As far as I know, the
only ABI difference is that the Objective-C runtime for the simulator is
the Modern runtime while the Mac is still using the Legacy runtime for
32-bit. So you can't use the same Objective-C compiler, but beside
Objective-C I'd expect all the generated code to be the same.
I assume I would need change DMD to use the gcc located in the iPhone
simulator SDK instead of the "regular" one.
That might help. Although I'd suspect that all that's really needed is
to specify the simulator's SDK as the system root with a linker flag
(--sysroot=<path>) when linking D code. I'd suggest you try that first.
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