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dmd for Haiku OS
Feb 28, 2019
MGW
Oct 31, 2022
Sergey
Oct 31, 2022
Brian Callahan
February 28, 2019
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I have recently looked through Haiku OS and got surprised to find there dmd 2.072.
There was only running file but Phobos and DrinTime were missing.

Are there any plans to port dmd to Haiku OS nowadays?
Is there a manual (example) on dmd porting on Haiku OS?
October 31, 2022
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On Thursday, 28 February 2019 at 13:17:44 UTC, MGW wrote:

Sorry for Zombie-thread. Just saw the news that wayland was ported to Haiku and was curious if somebody using D in it (https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-progress-in-wayland-compatibility-layer/12373).

> I have recently looked through Haiku OS and got surprised to find there dmd 2.072.
> There was only running file but Phobos and DrinTime were missing.
>
> Are there any plans to port dmd to Haiku OS nowadays?
> Is there a manual (example) on dmd porting on Haiku OS?

I'm not sure, because there are many more important and more valuable things to do for main core developers. Haiku has very low market share and users.
But AFAIK Haiku is using GCC and has C++. So maybe (actually I don't know) it is possible to bootstrap GDC from some older versions.

Also some related links below, which could be helpful, just in case someone will find this thread and decided to try.
Haiku and DMD related links:
https://github.com/scythx/dlang-dmd-haiku
https://forum.dlang.org/post/bmflikxzfdvlbazfwuws@forum.dlang.org
https://depot.haiku-os.org/#!/?bcguid=bc1-KHWR&repos=besly,fatelk,haikuports&arch=x86_64&viewcrttyp=FEATURED&srchexpr=dmd

Story about porting to OpenBSD:
https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210320.html

Good luck and have fun :)
October 31, 2022
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On Monday, 31 October 2022 at 17:31:58 UTC, Sergey wrote:
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> Story about porting to OpenBSD:
> https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210320.html
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Following up on my own blog post, I would definitely recommend using GCC 11.2 as the version to use to bootstrap GDC to Haiku. I think that's the last one before the move to GDC being written in D. Once you've made the bootstrap GDC, then move to the latest release (12.2) and you can continue moving forward with that as new releases are made.

~Brian