Hi everyone,

LDC 0.17.0-beta1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download!
This release is based on the 2.068.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.7.

Don't miss to check if your preferred system is supported by this release. We also have a Win64 compiler available!

As usual, you can find links to the changelog and the binary packages over at digitalmars.D.ldc:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/cnpluyvskgjztnuypybn@forum.dlang.org

Regards,
Kai

On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 20:33:30 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> LDC 0.17.0-beta1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download!
> This release is based on the 2.068.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.7.
>
> Don't miss to check if your preferred system is supported by this release. We also have a Win64 compiler available!
>
> As usual, you can find links to the changelog and the binary packages over at digitalmars.D.ldc:
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/cnpluyvskgjztnuypybn@forum.dlang.org
>
> Regards,
> Kai

Congratulations on Win64 support — is this the first LDC version with it?

On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 20:37:13 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
> Congratulations on Win64 support — is this the first LDC version with it?

No. Since 0.16.0 we regard the Win64 support as production-ready.

Regards,
Kai

On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 20:57:02 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> No. Since 0.16.0 we regard the Win64 support as production-ready.

The only thing we are missing is a fancy one-click installer, pretty much. Even though you can just extract the binary release archives and use LDC as-is (it should auto-detect MSVC), many Windows programmers seem to like installers.

 — Davidw

On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 20:57:02 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 20:37:13 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
>> Congratulations on Win64 support — is this the first LDC version with it?
>
> No. Since 0.16.0 we regard the Win64 support as production-ready.
>
> Regards,
> Kai

I must have missed that. That's great news for Windows adoption of D!

On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 20:33:30 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> LDC 0.17.0-beta1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download!
> This release is based on the 2.068.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.7.

Excellent! Works great so far (Linux x86_64).
Any chance of having pre-built binaries for cross-compiling to arm-linux-gnueabihf, like in GDC distributions?

On 15 January 2016 at 06:33, Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> LDC 0.17.0-beta1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.068.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.7.
>
> Don't miss to check if your preferred system is supported by this release. We also have a Win64 compiler available!
>
> As usual, you can find links to the changelog and the binary packages over at digitalmars.D.ldc: http://forum.dlang.org/post/cnpluyvskgjztnuypybn@forum.dlang.org
>
> Regards,
> Kai

Love your work guys! Thanks for keeping at it.

One question though, what's the plan for moving to DMD latest? Both
LDC and GDC seem to be quite behind at the moment.
My current project is depending on bug-fixes patched in by Walter in
the last few days, so I'm stuck with DMD for the moment.

On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 15:47:07 UTC, Manu wrote:
> Love your work guys! Thanks for keeping at it.
>
> One question though, what's the plan for moving to DMD latest? Both
> LDC and GDC seem to be quite behind at the moment.
> My current project is depending on bug-fixes patched in by Walter in
> the last few days, so I'm stuck with DMD for the moment.

GDC 2.067 is getting close: https://github.com/ibuclaw/GDC/commits/2.067

Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> writes:
>
> Love your work guys! Thanks for keeping at it.
>
> One question though, what's the plan for moving to DMD latest? Both
> LDC and GDC seem to be quite behind at the moment.
> My current project is depending on bug-fixes patched in by Walter in
> the last few days, so I'm stuck with DMD for the moment.

Process of merging 2.069 with D frontend into LDC has been started by Johan.

I imagine LDC will always be a 1 or 2 releases behind DMD with current number of contributers.  I notice much work goes into supporting other targets, platforms besides what DMD supports.  With more help, it could be kept up to a release behind.  David and Kai make LDC an easy, fun project to contribute to.

For your specific patch, sometimes LDC will cherry-pick important commits.
-- 
Dan

Adrian Matoga <epi@atari8.info> writes:

> On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 20:33:30 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
>> LDC 0.17.0-beta1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for
>> download!
>> This release is based on the 2.068.2 frontend and standard library
>> and supports LLVM 3.5-3.7.
>
> Excellent! Works great so far (Linux x86_64).
> Any chance of having pre-built binaries for cross-compiling to
> arm-linux-gnueabihf, like in GDC distributions?

Yes, though not sure when.  I have a Raspberry Pi (armv6) and will begin working with LDC on it soon.  I don't know how compatible arm-linux-gnueabihf builds are between various ARM systems, but this could be stepping stone toward a pre-built binary for LDC.
-- 
Dan