Hello everyone,

I'd ike to know if there are any known restrictions to using GDC on Windows instead of DMD?

My reason for asking is the new GP2X handheld console from GamePark:
http://www.gbax.com/devx2.html

It is running a version of Linux and there will be a free SDK and gcc based compiler for developing applications/games.

I was planning on using D + derelict.sdl for this. Maybe one could even get a Lua binding running on it as well.

Anyway, I'm a Windows user and normally use DMD. But since the G2X compiler uses gcc I would have to try GDC for this purpose.

So what do you think? Is this possible or is there a big hindrance you can think of?

Best regards,
Nils

Nils Hensel wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'd ike to know if there are any known restrictions to using GDC on Windows instead of DMD?
> 
> My reason for asking is the new GP2X handheld console from GamePark:
> http://www.gbax.com/devx2.html
> 
> It is running a version of Linux and there will be a free SDK and gcc based compiler for developing applications/games.
> 
> I was planning on using D + derelict.sdl for this. Maybe one could even get a Lua binding running on it as well.
> 
> Anyway, I'm a Windows user and normally use DMD. But since the G2X compiler uses gcc I would have to try GDC for this purpose.
> 
> So what do you think? Is this possible or is there a big hindrance you can think of?
> 
> Best regards,
> Nils

It is possible, but a few additions need to be made to GDC and Phobos to support arm-linux.  I think I can do this using an existing Linux PDA kit.

You will probably want to install the MinGW or Cygwin environment, depending on which on the GP2X SDK uses (nobody seems to know yet!)

David

David Friedman schrieb:
> Nils Hensel wrote:
> 
>> I'd ike to know if there are any known restrictions to using GDC on Windows instead of DMD?
>>
>> My reason for asking is the new GP2X handheld console from GamePark:
>> http://www.gbax.com/devx2.html
>>
>> It is running a version of Linux and there will be a free SDK and gcc based compiler for developing applications/games.
>>
>> So what do you think? Is this possible or is there a big hindrance you can think of?
> 
> It is possible, but a few additions need to be made to GDC and Phobos to support arm-linux.  I think I can do this using an existing Linux PDA kit.

That would be awesome! I'm not too keen on having to go back to C(++).
I believe once this works it could be a great way of attracting a whole new bunch of D users from the GP community as well. Anyway ... *stops counting unhatched chickens*

> You will probably want to install the MinGW or Cygwin environment, depending on which on the GP2X SDK uses (nobody seems to know yet!)

I won't get my GP2X before November so I'll just have to wait and see.

Best regards,
Nils