Glad to announce the second beta for LDC 1.18:

* Based on D 2.088.0+ (yesterday's stable).
* Support for LLVM 9.0, which is used for the prebuilt packages.
* Experimental prebuilt Android armv7a package.
* Bundled dub upgraded to v1.17.0+ with improved LDC support, incl. cross-compilation.
* Init symbols of zero-initialized structs are no longer emitted.
* druntime: DMD-compatible {load,store}Unaligned and prefetch added to core.simd.
* JIT improvements, incl. multi-threaded compilation.

Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.18.0-beta2

Please help test, and thanks to all contributors!

On 30/09/2019 9:46 AM, kinke wrote:
> * Experimental prebuilt Android armv7a package.

Nice!

Thanks for whoever is doing this.

On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 08:46:52PM +0000, kinke via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> Glad to announce the second beta for LDC 1.18:
> 
> * Based on D 2.088.0+ (yesterday's stable).

This is, like, the most awesome thing ever, that LDC is tracking DMD releases so closely.  Big thanks to everyone involved in making this happen!


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> * Experimental prebuilt Android armv7a package.
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Is this for native Android compilation, or cross-compiling to Android?


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On Monday, 30 September 2019 at 15:15:57 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Is this for native Android compilation, or cross-compiling to Android?

Primarily for native compilation (though you'll still need a C compiler for linking and I don't know how that works on Android - there's no native NDK AFAICT, so people may have to resort to Termux or whatever), but it's also useful for cross-compilation, as you don't have to cross-compile druntime and Phobos yourself and can just extract the prebuilt libs.

On Sunday, 29 September 2019 at 20:46:52 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Glad to announce the second beta for LDC 1.18:

Thanks for this guys!