You're probably all wondering why I haven't done an update in a while. There are two reasons:

1) I was sick for a couple weeks. Ugh.

2) I'm working on a linux version. dmd is working under linux now, but the runtime library needs much work. Work is frustratingly slow on it, mainly because of my inexperience with linux and the dearth of good information on how the internals of file formats, etc., actually work.

ALLRIGHT!!!

I've been using dli for forever, and have been looking forward to re-integrating with dmd.  I just tried to use dmd with wine; it's possible, but not easy.

Thanks for the work!
    Russ

Walter wrote:

> You're probably all wondering why I haven't done an update in a while. There are two reasons:
>
> 1) I was sick for a couple weeks. Ugh.
>
> 2) I'm working on a linux version. dmd is working under linux now, but the runtime library needs much work. Work is frustratingly slow on it, mainly because of my inexperience with linux and the dearth of good information on how the internals of file formats, etc., actually work.

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> 1) I was sick for a couple weeks. Ugh.

Get well soon!
It was not SARS I hope?!

Jan

> 2) I'm working on a linux version. dmd is working under linux now, but the runtime library needs much work. Work is frustratingly slow on it, mainly because of my inexperience with linux and the dearth of good information on how the internals of file formats, etc., actually work.

While you're at it... Any change you might have a DMC++ for Linux with it too?

Jan

Oh no! It's the what-if-you-get-run-over-by-a-bus conundrum.

Perhaps we need to start cloning little compiler walters?

:)

"Walter" <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:b86psp$eum$3@digitaldaemon.com...
> You're probably all wondering why I haven't done an update in a while.
There
> are two reasons:
>
> 1) I was sick for a couple weeks. Ugh.
>
> 2) I'm working on a linux version. dmd is working under linux now, but the runtime library needs much work. Work is frustratingly slow on it, mainly because of my inexperience with linux and the dearth of good information
on
> how the internals of file formats, etc., actually work.
>
>

"Jan Knepper" <jan@smartsoft.us> wrote in message news:3EA70C20.12AF234A@smartsoft.us...
> > 1) I was sick for a couple weeks. Ugh.
> Get well soon!
> It was not SARS I hope?!

I wasn't bedridden or anything, just down enough that I was demotivated from doing anything but watching Seinfeld on my Tivo.

"Jan Knepper" <jan@smartsoft.us> wrote in message news:3EA70C58.34099300@smartsoft.us...
> > 2) I'm working on a linux version. dmd is working under linux now, but
the
> > runtime library needs much work. Work is frustratingly slow on it,
mainly
> > because of my inexperience with linux and the dearth of good information
on
> > how the internals of file formats, etc., actually work.
> While you're at it... Any change you might have a DMC++ for Linux with it
too?

They do share quite a bit.

Walter wrote:

> They do share quite a bit.

If I could use DMC++ on Linux I would do so right away.  You'd also have a big Gentoo advocate over here.  A common complaint is that compilation takes so long.  Another is the often crappy code that GCC generates.  DMC++ doesn't seem to have those two problems IME.

I currently have a distributed compilation system setup with distcc that uses separate windows systems as 'compilation nodes' with gcc cross compilers just to speed it up because it's so damn slow. :)

/me dreams of building/testing the whole system in under 24hrs without requiring 5+ computers.

"Garen Parham" <nospam@garen.net> wrote in message news:b88t3n$1r84$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Walter wrote:
>
> > They do share quite a bit.
>
> If I could use DMC++ on Linux I would do so right away.  You'd also have a big Gentoo advocate over here.  A common complaint is that compilation
takes
> so long.  Another is the often crappy code that GCC generates.  DMC++
doesn't
> seem to have those two problems IME.
>
> I currently have a distributed compilation system setup with distcc that uses separate windows systems as 'compilation nodes' with gcc cross
compilers
> just to speed it up because it's so damn slow. :)
>
> /me dreams of building/testing the whole system in under 24hrs without requiring 5+ computers.

GCC is pretty slow. One big problem with putting DMC on linux is it would need to be binary compatible with the way GCC does things. There's a lot of undocumented stuff there.

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:10:18 -0700, Walter <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote:

>
> GCC is pretty slow. One big problem with putting DMC on linux is it would
> need to be binary compatible with the way GCC does things. There's a lot of
> undocumented stuff there.
>
i would have to disagree.  all of the source code is there to look at, the ABI GCC uses is compatible with the Intel compiler ABI on linux, and linux is a mature and well-documented platform.

i really don't see why you're saying there's a lot that's undocumented.

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