On 11 December 2017 at 20:28, Diederik de Groot via dmd-internals <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday, 23 July 2017 at 22:40:13 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >> On 23 July 2017 at 23:52, Brad Roberts via dmd-internals >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I just setup the auto-tester to test the dmd-cxx branches: >>> >>> https://auto-tester.puremagic.com/?projectid=17 >>> >>> One thing that needs to happen for it to build is to catch up with the >>> changes made to the makefiles to put the build output in the generated >>> directory. I'm sure there's others, but that'll get past the first batch of >>> errors I see right now. >>> >>> >> >> Really? That is a bit of a shame, I'd rather not much around with the >> build config more than what is strictly necessary. >> >> Iain. > > > Hi Iain/All, > > Thanks for creating the dmd-cxx branch. I used it when porting dmd/druntime > and phobos to DragonFlyBSD (see: > https://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]). > > Is the dmd-cxx going to be available in the future as a starting point for > other ports ? Are you / is anyone working on making it compatible with the > current master branch (v2.077.x) ? Or is it ok to use a multi stage method > (like i did) ? > > I used v2.068.2 as the middle stage, instead of v2.072.2 to which you > updated dmd-cxx, which i only noticed after i had finished the v2.068.2 > version. Is it ok to depend on 2.68.2 instead of the version you chose ? >
I would hardly call it 2.072, its just 2.068 but with some regression fixes from latter releases. The only thing I guarantee it to build is phobos and dmd. I can't see it being updated beyond a 2.076-ish front-end (which is what gdc is using). Iain. _______________________________________________ dmd-internals mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals
