Hey all,

on behalf of the LDC team I am proud to announce the new 1.1.0-beta6 release!
It's based on the 2.071.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5 up to current trunk (4.0).

Beta 6 is what beta 4 should have been, but early testing revealed some issues (thanks for reporting!) before official announcements were made, so we're at beta 6 now and looking forward to a final release, depending on your feedback!

The highlights of this release are Link-Time Optimization, DLL exports on Windows and, as always, a multitude of bugfixes.

This time, we only provide binaries for Linux, OS X and Windows; the usual FreeBSD and Linux/ARM (armv7hf) ones are missing due to limited manpower.

Changelog and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.1.0-beta6

All binaries are built with LLVM 3.9.
* The Linux x86/x86_64 binaries are built on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and work on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (or later) without installing additional software.
* The OS X binaries are built on OS X 10.10 and require at least OS X 10.8.
* The Windows binaries are built on Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2015 (update 3). They require a VS2015 or Visual C++ Build Tools installation for linking (and depend on the Visual C++ 2015 runtime). The 64-bit package is a multilib one capable of targeting x86 via `-m32`.

Please be sure to report any bugs at https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues.

Thanks to everybody involved in making this happen!

Regards,
kinke

On Tuesday, 13 December 2016 at 19:52:40 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team I am proud to announce the new 1.1.0-beta6 release!
> It's based on the 2.071.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5 up to current trunk (4.0).
>
> Beta 6 is what beta 4 should have been, but early testing revealed some issues (thanks for reporting!) before official announcements were made, so we're at beta 6 now and looking forward to a final release, depending on your feedback!
>
> The highlights of this release are Link-Time Optimization, DLL exports on Windows and, as always, a multitude of bugfixes.
>
> This time, we only provide binaries for Linux, OS X and Windows; the usual FreeBSD and Linux/ARM (armv7hf) ones are missing due to limited manpower.
>
> Changelog and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.1.0-beta6
>
> All binaries are built with LLVM 3.9.
> * The Linux x86/x86_64 binaries are built on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and work on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (or later) without installing additional software.
> * The OS X binaries are built on OS X 10.10 and require at least OS X 10.8.
> * The Windows binaries are built on Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2015 (update 3). They require a VS2015 or Visual C++ Build Tools installation for linking (and depend on the Visual C++ 2015 runtime). The 64-bit package is a multilib one capable of targeting x86 via `-m32`.
>
> Please be sure to report any bugs at https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues.
>
> Thanks to everybody involved in making this happen!
>
> Regards,
> kinke

I have a problem when compiling a project that uses LuaD. I don't see any issues reported yet on LuaD's github so I'm not sure where the problem originates.

Anyway I get this when linking:
../../../.dub/packages/luad-master/luad/.dub/build/library-release-linux.posix-x86_64-ldc_0-B1357DF9F0EC274CDA75A2B3B084BCDA/libluad.a(luad.state.o): In function `_D4luad5state8LuaState8openLibsMFNeZv':
../../../.dub/packages/luad-master/luad/luad/state.d:(.text._D4luad5state8LuaState8openLibsMFNeZv[_D4luad5state8LuaState8openLibsMFNeZv]+0xf): undefined reference to `luaL_openlibs'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Everything works fine with DMD though.

On Wednesday, 14 December 2016 at 09:28:23 UTC, Soulsbane wrote:
> I have a problem when compiling a project that uses LuaD. I don't see any issues reported yet on LuaD's github so I'm not sure where the problem originates.
>
> Anyway I get this when linking:
> ../../../.dub/packages/luad-master/luad/.dub/build/library-release-linux.posix-x86_64-ldc_0-B1357DF9F0EC274CDA75A2B3B084BCDA/libluad.a(luad.state.o): In function `_D4luad5state8LuaState8openLibsMFNeZv':
> ../../../.dub/packages/luad-master/luad/luad/state.d:(.text._D4luad5state8LuaState8openLibsMFNeZv[_D4luad5state8LuaState8openLibsMFNeZv]+0xf): undefined reference to `luaL_openlibs'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> Everything works fine with DMD though.

Looks as if the Lua C library isn't passed to the linker. Please check the command lines to figure out where the difference comes from and then raise an issue.

On Wednesday, 14 December 2016 at 11:34:21 UTC, kink wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 December 2016 at 09:28:23 UTC, Soulsbane wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Looks as if the Lua C library isn't passed to the linker. Please check the command lines to figure out where the difference comes from and then raise an issue.

Ok, for some reason dmd worked just fine without having liblua5.1 in my dub.sdl and has for months. Anyway, fixed now though. Thanks.

On Thursday, 15 December 2016 at 06:04:05 UTC, Soulsbane wrote:

> Ok, for some reason dmd worked just fine without having liblua5.1 in my dub.sdl and has for months. Anyway, fixed now though. Thanks.

That's because of this line in LuaD's dub.json:

"libs-windows-x86_64-dmd": ["lua5.1"],

On Thursday, 15 December 2016 at 09:02:39 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 December 2016 at 06:04:05 UTC, Soulsbane wrote:
>
>> Ok, for some reason dmd worked just fine without having liblua5.1 in my dub.sdl and has for months. Anyway, fixed now though. Thanks.
>
> That's because of this line in LuaD's dub.json:
>
> "libs-windows-x86_64-dmd": ["lua5.1"],

And this one:

"sourceFiles-windows-x86-dmd": ["extlib/lua5.1.lib"],

On Thursday, 15 December 2016 at 09:03:33 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 December 2016 at 09:02:39 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> On Thursday, 15 December 2016 at 06:04:05 UTC, Soulsbane wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, for some reason dmd worked just fine without having liblua5.1 in my dub.sdl and has for months. Anyway, fixed now though. Thanks.
>>
>> That's because of this line in LuaD's dub.json:
>>
>> "libs-windows-x86_64-dmd": ["lua5.1"],
>
> And this one:
>
> "sourceFiles-windows-x86-dmd": ["extlib/lua5.1.lib"],

yeah, I saw that but I'm on Linux. Anyway all is good. Thanks.

On Thursday, 15 December 2016 at 22:40:59 UTC, Soulsbane wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 December 2016 at 09:03:33 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> On Thursday, 15 December 2016 at 09:02:39 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 15 December 2016 at 06:04:05 UTC, Soulsbane wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok, for some reason dmd worked just fine without having liblua5.1 in my dub.sdl and has for months. Anyway, fixed now though. Thanks.
>>>
>>> That's because of this line in LuaD's dub.json:
>>>
>>> "libs-windows-x86_64-dmd": ["lua5.1"],
>>
>> And this one:
>>
>> "sourceFiles-windows-x86-dmd": ["extlib/lua5.1.lib"],
>
> yeah, I saw that but I'm on Linux. Anyway all is good. Thanks.

So if the following lines in dub.json

```
"sourceFiles-linux-x86": ["extlib/x86_32-linux-gnu/liblua.a"],
"sourceFiles-linux-x86_64": ["extlib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua.a"],
```

don't work with LDC but do with DMD, please file a DUB issue about it, in order to save others from this annoyance.

On Tuesday, 13 December 2016 at 19:52:40 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team I am proud to announce the new 1.1.0-beta6 release!
> It's based on the 2.071.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5 up to current trunk (4.0).
>
> Beta 6 is what beta 4 should have been, but early testing revealed some issues (thanks for reporting!) before official announcements were made, so we're at beta 6 now and looking forward to a final release, depending on your feedback!
>

I've started testing this release, but it would be easier if it was available on Travis CI. Have I missed something?
I've tried "ldc-1.1.0-b6"

On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 at 00:17:11 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
>
> I've started testing this release, but it would be easier if it was available on Travis CI. Have I missed something?
> I've tried "ldc-1.1.0-b6"

Found it, the right name is "ldc-1.1.0-beta6"