Re: GDC in Slackware and a bit about GDC development

[Eugene Wissner via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 23 September 2017 at 20:34:51 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
On 23 September 2017 at 21:45, Eugene Wissner via 
Digitalmars-d-announce  
wrote:
GDC looks pretty nice. I had only one problem: I got a linking 
error if I
use core.stdc.stdarg; not sure if it is my failure or a bug. 
But I could

build my library and run tests. Pretty nice.



What's the linker error?


Here is the code, test.d:

import core.stdc.stdarg;

void format(char[] buf, ...)
{
va_list va;
va_start(va, buf);
va_end(va);
 }

void main()
{
}


$ gdc test.d
/tmp/ccwm5f8o.o: In function `_D4test6formatFAaYv':
test.d:(.text+0x114): undefined reference to 
`_D4core4stdc6stdarg6va_endFNbPS4core4stdc6stdarg13__va_list_tagZv'

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status


Looks good.  A simpler GCC frontend would be 
https://github.com/giuseppe/gccbrainfuck



But without the great explanations :)

Re: GDC in Slackware and a bit about GDC development

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 23 September 2017 at 21:45, Eugene Wissner via
Digitalmars-d-announce  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lately I finally got some time to create GDC package for Slackware Linux
> [1].
> Slackware ships gcc 5.3.0, therefore GDC package is the latest version from
> "gcc5" branch. It has phobos and druntime 2.076.0-b1 and the frontend
> somewhere between 2.075 and 2.076.
> Since Slackware packages are built by plain shell scripts, I thought I make
> an announce, because it can be used as a reference by people, who whant to
> build the latest GDC from source. The only difference between Slackware and
> mainstream Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian) I'm aware of, is that x86-64
> Slackware isn't multiarch by default.
>
> The package is on slackbuilds.org [2]. The direct link to the build script
> is [3].
> GDC looks pretty nice. I had only one problem: I got a linking error if I
> use core.stdc.stdarg; not sure if it is my failure or a bug. But I could
> build my library and run tests. Pretty nice.
>

What's the linker error?

> I also would like to point to the "GCC tiny" tutorial [4]. The tutorial
> tells how to create a GCC frontend for a Pascal-like language, tiny. And it
> is a great thing to learn about GCC internals for someone who wants to help
> with GDC development, the best one I could find in the last months.
>
> [4] http://thinkingeek.com/gcc-tiny/

Looks good.  A simpler GCC frontend would be
https://github.com/giuseppe/gccbrainfuck

Regards
Iain.

GDC in Slackware and a bit about GDC development

[Eugene Wissner via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Hi,

lately I finally got some time to create GDC package for 
Slackware Linux [1].
Slackware ships gcc 5.3.0, therefore GDC package is the latest 
version from "gcc5" branch. It has phobos and druntime 2.076.0-b1 
and the frontend somewhere between 2.075 and 2.076.
Since Slackware packages are built by plain shell scripts, I 
thought I make an announce, because it can be used as a reference 
by people, who whant to build the latest GDC from source. The 
only difference between Slackware and mainstream Linux 
distributions (Ubuntu, Debian) I'm aware of, is that x86-64 
Slackware isn't multiarch by default.


The package is on slackbuilds.org [2]. The direct link to the 
build script is [3].
GDC looks pretty nice. I had only one problem: I got a linking 
error if I use core.stdc.stdarg; not sure if it is my failure or 
a bug. But I could build my library and run tests. Pretty nice.


I also would like to point to the "GCC tiny" tutorial [4]. The 
tutorial tells how to create a GCC frontend for a Pascal-like 
language, tiny. And it is a great thing to learn about GCC 
internals for someone who wants to help with GDC development, the 
best one I could find in the last months.



[1] http://www.slackware.com/
[2] https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/development/gcc-d/
[3] 
https://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.2/development/gcc-d/gcc-d.SlackBuild

[4] http://thinkingeek.com/gcc-tiny/

Re: First Alexa D Skill is live

[ugnius via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 18 May 2017 at 17:27:20 UTC, Fabian Wallentowitz 
wrote:

Hey guys,

Stephan (extrawurst) and me (fabsi88) have published the first 
Amazon Echo Alexa Skill based on D. It's called Enigma2 control 
and can be used for controlling your enigma based linux 
receiver via openwebif plugin.


For further information see skill store (german only right now):
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B01N4W07S4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-skills=UTF8=1495124694

and our developer page at github: 
https://github.com/alexa-d/alexa-openwebif


See Stephans DConf17 Talk to get further technical / D-specific 
details:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBxvNk1mgxA

Fabian


is it in German Alexa commands only?

DerelictSDL2 3.1.0-alpha.1

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce]

SDL 2.0.6 was just released [1], so I've updated DerelictSDL2 [2] 
to support it. It's available in DerelictSDL2 3.1.0-alpha.1. I've 
tested that the loader works, but beyond that I've done nothing 
with it.


I also fixed some minor issues in the 3.0 branch, the latest 
release of which is 3.0.0-beta.7.


The 3.0 series supports SDL 2.0.0 - SDL 2.0.5, and the 3.1 series 
supports SDL 2.0.0 - 2.0.6. The latter is currently not in the 
master branch (it's in the 3.1 branch), nor is it in the 
documentation. I'll move 3.1 development to master and update the 
docs once I pull it out of alpha.


[1] https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/sdl-2-0-6-released/23109
[2] https://github.com/DerelictOrg/DerelictSDL2