Re: LDC 1.24.0

2020-12-13 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 13 December 2020 at 08:12:37 UTC, Jarrett Tierney wrote: I know this is rather late to post the thank you, but wanted to let you know using your experimental support for targeting macOS on arm, I was actually able to build a native ldc for Mac m1. Much appreciated, thanks for

Re: LDC 1.24.0

2020-12-13 Thread Jarrett Tierney via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 15:11:08 UTC, kinke wrote: Glad to announce LDC 1.24 - some highlights: - Based on D 2.094.1+. - Support for LLVM 11. The prebuilt packages use v11.0.0, and the x86 packages newly include the LLVM backend for AMD GPUs. - Experimental support for targeting macOS

Re: LDC 1.24.0

2020-11-12 Thread Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 7 November 2020 at 23:54:51 UTC, Dan Printzell wrote: Sorry, I've been waiting for the LLVM 11 package rebuild[1] to finish to make the packaging easier. But as so much time have passed I should probably just do it anyway. [1] https://www.archlinux.org/todo/llvm-11/ I see they

Re: LDC 1.24.0

2020-11-07 Thread Dan Printzell via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 7 November 2020 at 15:02:42 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 15:11:08 UTC, kinke wrote: [...] Arch Linux packages are still at 1.23[1]. They were flagged as outdated on Oct 25th. Does anyone know the package maintainers? Is there something blocking an

Re: LDC 1.24.0

2020-11-07 Thread Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 15:11:08 UTC, kinke wrote: [...] Arch Linux packages are still at 1.23[1]. They were flagged as outdated on Oct 25th. Does anyone know the package maintainers? Is there something blocking an update? [1]:

Re: LDC 1.24.0

2020-10-31 Thread Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 15:11:08 UTC, kinke wrote: Glad to announce LDC 1.24 - some highlights: - Based on D 2.094.1+. - Support for LLVM 11. The prebuilt packages use v11.0.0, and the x86 packages newly include the LLVM backend for AMD GPUs. - Experimental support for targeting macOS

Re: LDC 1.24.0

2020-10-26 Thread Mathias LANG via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 15:11:08 UTC, kinke wrote: Glad to announce LDC 1.24 - some highlights: - Based on D 2.094.1+. - Support for LLVM 11. The prebuilt packages use v11.0.0, and the x86 packages newly include the LLVM backend for AMD GPUs. - Experimental support for targeting macOS

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-26 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 26 October 2020 at 07:14:55 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: You underestimate how spoiled windows developer are. Even these simple step are completely out of character for most software on the platform. 20 years ago it wasn't a problem, now on Windows 10 it's a whole other story. How

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-26 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 26/10/2020 8:14 PM, Patrick Schluter wrote: You underestimate how spoiled windows developer are. Even these simple step are completely out of character for most software on the platform. 20 years ago it wasn't a problem, now on Windows 10 it's a whole other story. How many clicks to get the

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-26 Thread Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 00:00:02 UTC, starcanopy wrote: On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 22:48:33 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 20:21:39 UTC, aberba wrote: On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 18:01:19 UTC, Kagamin wrote: [...] Not saying Kinke SHOULD do it. Was rather

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-25 Thread Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 25 October 2020 at 13:59:44 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 18:01:19 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 20:09:58 UTC, aberba wrote: Supposing I'm new to D, I have previous experience with LLVM-based compilers so I prefer to use LDC. How am

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-25 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 18:01:19 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 20:09:58 UTC, aberba wrote: Supposing I'm new to D, I have previous experience with LLVM-based compilers so I prefer to use LDC. How am I supposed to know what to do? Where is the information on how to

Re: LDC 1.24.0

2020-10-24 Thread Johan Engelen via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 15:11:08 UTC, kinke wrote: Glad to announce LDC 1.24 - some highlights: - Based on D 2.094.1+. - Support for LLVM 11. The prebuilt packages use v11.0.0, and the x86 packages newly include the LLVM backend for AMD GPUs. - Experimental support for targeting macOS

Re: LDC 1.24.0

2020-10-24 Thread Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 15:11:08 UTC, kinke wrote: Glad to announce LDC 1.24 - some highlights: - Based on D 2.094.1+. - Support for LLVM 11. The prebuilt packages use v11.0.0, and the x86 packages newly include the LLVM backend for AMD GPUs. - Experimental support for targeting macOS

LDC 1.24.0

2020-10-24 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Glad to announce LDC 1.24 - some highlights: - Based on D 2.094.1+. - Support for LLVM 11. The prebuilt packages use v11.0.0, and the x86 packages newly include the LLVM backend for AMD GPUs. - Experimental support for targeting macOS on 64-bit ARM. The macOS package includes prebuilt

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-24 Thread Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 00:00:02 UTC, starcanopy wrote: On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 22:48:33 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 20:21:39 UTC, aberba wrote: On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 18:01:19 UTC, Kagamin wrote: [...] Not saying Kinke SHOULD do it. Was rather

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-23 Thread starcanopy via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 22:48:33 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 20:21:39 UTC, aberba wrote: On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 18:01:19 UTC, Kagamin wrote: [...] Not saying Kinke SHOULD do it. Was rather disagreeing with the idea that "developers" don't use

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-23 Thread Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 20:21:39 UTC, aberba wrote: On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 18:01:19 UTC, Kagamin wrote: [...] Not saying Kinke SHOULD do it. Was rather disagreeing with the idea that "developers" don't use installers. And that's a shortcoming with the LDC project...no

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-23 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 20:21:39 UTC, aberba wrote: Beginners, if you want an LDC installer then "Go do it yourself". I wouldn't consider that a good message. Out of curiosity, what is the alternative message? Someone has to do it. This is a volunteer project, not a business, so

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-23 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 18:01:19 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 20:09:58 UTC, aberba wrote: Supposing I'm new to D, I have previous experience with LLVM-based compilers so I prefer to use LDC. How am I supposed to know what to do? Where is the information on how to

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-23 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 20:09:58 UTC, aberba wrote: Supposing I'm new to D, I have previous experience with LLVM-based compilers so I prefer to use LDC. How am I supposed to know what to do? Where is the information on how to get it on my system through visualD installer? The LDC

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-20 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 21:58:16 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote: On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 20:21:56 UTC, aberba wrote: [...] Guys, all points have been made, there is no wrong and right here, let's stop arguing over this. What is needed is someone who thinks it is useful to have an

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-20 Thread Johan Engelen via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 20:21:56 UTC, aberba wrote: On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 17:36:11 UTC, kinke wrote: On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 16:08:47 UTC, aberba wrote: It's an option but doesn't fill the need for an installer. Not sure why its hasn't been done. See

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-20 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 17:36:11 UTC, kinke wrote: On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 16:08:47 UTC, aberba wrote: It's an option but doesn't fill the need for an installer. Not sure why its hasn't been done. See https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/1754. From the discussions, it

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-20 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 17:36:11 UTC, kinke wrote: On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 16:08:47 UTC, aberba wrote: It's an option but doesn't fill the need for an installer. Not sure why its hasn't been done. See https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/1754. I personally never

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-20 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 17:36:11 UTC, kinke wrote: [snip] See https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/1754. I personally never download the DMD installers, only the .7z. I also don't use a global PATH set up to point to a particular LDC installation. I expect the vast majority of

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-20 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 16:08:47 UTC, aberba wrote: It's an option but doesn't fill the need for an installer. Not sure why its hasn't been done. See https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/1754. I personally never download the DMD installers, only the .7z. I also don't use a

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-20 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 19 October 2020 at 20:49:14 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: On Monday, 19 October 2020 at 18:48:11 UTC, notna wrote: On Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 22:40:53 UTC, aberba wrote: It would be convenient if you provided a .exe installer as well. Not sure what to do with the .7z file without

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-20 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 19 October 2020 at 18:48:11 UTC, notna wrote: On Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 22:40:53 UTC, aberba wrote: It would be convenient if you provided a .exe installer as well. Not sure what to do with the .7z file without manual tinkering. use scoop for Windows package mgmt in a user

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-20 Thread Basile B. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 19 October 2020 at 20:49:14 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: On Monday, 19 October 2020 at 18:48:11 UTC, notna wrote: On Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 22:40:53 UTC, aberba wrote: It would be convenient if you provided a .exe installer as well. Not sure what to do with the .7z file without

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-19 Thread Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 19 October 2020 at 18:48:11 UTC, notna wrote: On Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 22:40:53 UTC, aberba wrote: It would be convenient if you provided a .exe installer as well. Not sure what to do with the .7z file without manual tinkering. use scoop for Windows package mgmt in a user

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-19 Thread notna via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 22:40:53 UTC, aberba wrote: It would be convenient if you provided a .exe installer as well. Not sure what to do with the .7z file without manual tinkering. use scoop for Windows package mgmt in a user context. build with developers in mind. for installation

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 19 October 2020 at 14:20:02 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: Are we looking at the same instructions? ah i mixed it up with https://dlang.org/dmd-linux.html#installation in my brain without clicking the link :( sorry my bad those are ok.

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-19 Thread Paul Backus via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 19 October 2020 at 13:59:42 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 19 October 2020 at 13:43:14 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: I'm not suggesting that this fills the need of newbies, but there is this: https://dlang.org/install.html. Nobody should ever follow those terrible instructions,

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 19 October 2020 at 13:43:14 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: I'm not suggesting that this fills the need of newbies, but there is this: https://dlang.org/install.html. Nobody should ever follow those terrible instructions, they leave you so fragile in the event of future updates, takes

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-19 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 23:07:26 UTC, aberba wrote: On Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 22:47:17 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 22:40:53 UTC, aberba wrote: Not sure what to do with the .7z file without manual tinkering. You can simply unzip it and use it directly.

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-18 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 22:47:17 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 22:40:53 UTC, aberba wrote: Not sure what to do with the .7z file without manual tinkering. You can simply unzip it and use it directly. That's the best way to use most D compilers actually, then

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-18 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 22:40:53 UTC, aberba wrote: Not sure what to do with the .7z file without manual tinkering. You can simply unzip it and use it directly. That's the best way to use most D compilers actually, then any versions can live side by side without affecting each other.

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-18 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 1 October 2020 at 18:04:35 UTC, kinke wrote: Glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.24: - Based on D 2.094.0+. - Support for LLVM 11. The prebuilt packages use v11.0.0-rc4+, and the x86 packages newly include the LLVM backend for AMD GPUs. Full release log and downloads:

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-05 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 1 October 2020 at 18:04:35 UTC, kinke wrote: Glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.24: - Based on D 2.094.0+. - Support for LLVM 11. The prebuilt packages use v11.0.0-rc4+, and the x86 packages newly include the LLVM backend for AMD GPUs. Full release log and downloads:

LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-01 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.24: - Based on D 2.094.0+. - Support for LLVM 11. The prebuilt packages use v11.0.0-rc4+, and the x86 packages newly include the LLVM backend for AMD GPUs. Full release log and downloads: