On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Joakim via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

On Monday, 15 January 2018 at 13:25:26 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:

So why not to use cross compilation?

As I said before, you could do that for the initial port, say cross-compiling a build of ldc master for DragonFly by using ldc master on linux. However, from then on, you'd either be stuck requiring all your DragonFly users to do the same or checking that cross-compiled DragonFly binary into a binary package repository somewhere. I don't think any OS does this, as usually the binary packages are all built from source.

And this is exactly what many distributions do, so there is nothing wrong about it. There is no big difference between C++ compiler or D compiler, you still need to used some existing binary to build it from source.