On 23 Jul 2014 06:25, "Timo Sintonen via D.gnu" <d.gnu@puremagic.com> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, 22 July 2014 at 22:13:15 UTC, John Carter wrote:
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>> So for various reasons I see potential to use a gdc on an Altera FPGA with a nios2 softcore running embedded linux.
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>> Given gdc on linux exists, gdc arm port exists, gcc nios2 back end exists....
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>> Leaves me wondering... how hard could it be to get gdc targetting Nios2?
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>> Any "this is how to do these things" type guides out there?
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> I do not know this system but should be possible.
> Maybe this is the starting point:
> http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/Installation
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> At the end of the page there is a link to cross compiler page. In that page there is 4 different ways people have used.
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> First forget D and try to build a C only toolset. If this works then build c++

I'd skip step one and just go straight to building C++ first. Given that gcc is no longer written in C.

Iain