So what's up with GDC these days?  Haven't seen any releases in a while.
I'm trying to build mingw version from SVN now.
Thinking of putting up periodic snapshots if I can manage that.
Might be interested in helping keep up to date with DMD in other ways if I can help.

I'm sure there are plenty of folks out there who could offer a little time here and there to help maintain web-pages and tarballs for up-to-date GDC releases.   So let's do it!

--bb

Bill Baxter wrote:
> So what's up with GDC these days?  Haven't seen any releases in a while.
> I'm trying to build mingw version from SVN now.
> Thinking of putting up periodic snapshots if I can manage that.
> Might be interested in helping keep up to date with DMD in other ways if
> I can help.
> 
> I'm sure there are plenty of folks out there who could offer a little time here and there to help maintain web-pages and tarballs for up-to-date GDC releases.   So let's do it!
> 
> --bb

I asked if GDC was ded a few months back.

My question was mostly met with ridicule.

That post is about one page up in my newsreader. I don't think there have been significant SVN commits in this time.

I'll let that speak for itself.

 --downs

Bill Baxter wrote:
> So what's up with GDC these days?  Haven't seen any releases in a while.
> I'm trying to build mingw version from SVN now.

i've been using GDC on linux 64bit for quite a while now and i only came across a single, typeinfo/linking related problem. besides that it works great.
i'm using the 0.25 pre-release from the ubuntu/debian package repositories. it's based on DMD 1.021, which is the version that i use on windows as well (since 1.022 introduced a (backend?) bug that causes an ICE when building 2 of my projects with -O).

Il Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:20:26 +0100, Jascha Wetzel ha scritto:

> i've been using GDC on linux 64bit for quite a while now and i only came across a single, typeinfo/linking related problem. besides that it works great.

Did you manage to compile gtkd with gdc?
I tried the best I could but it only compiles with the latest versions of
dmd 1 and dsss... :/

I know of a patch to gtkd to compile it with gdc, but I read that it still segfaults.

Thanks.
Bye.

Bill Baxter, el  5 de marzo a las 19:07 me escribiste:
> So what's up with GDC these days?  Haven't seen any releases in a while.
> I'm trying to build mingw version from SVN now.
> Thinking of putting up periodic snapshots if I can manage that.
> Might be interested in helping keep up to date with DMD in other ways if I can help.
> 
> I'm sure there are plenty of folks out there who could offer a little time here and there to help maintain web-pages and tarballs for up-to-date GDC releases.   So let's do it!

I talked recently with Arthur Loiret, a Debian (or Ubuntu?) maintainer who patched GDC to compile with CGG 4.2 asking him if he send the patches to David, and he answer that he tried to contact David with no success.

I guess David lost interest in GDC. I'd like to pick it up myself in a near future (I'm starting my thesis and I'll work with D), but I don't have the time to give it all the love it deserves right now.

Is there anybody who knows anything about the GDC internals, where is the glue code that uses the DMD frontend for example?

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Alessandro Pellizzari wrote:
> Il Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:20:26 +0100, Jascha Wetzel ha scritto:
> 
>> i've been using GDC on linux 64bit for quite a while now and i only came
>> across a single, typeinfo/linking related problem. besides that it works
>> great.
> 
> Did you manage to compile gtkd with gdc?
> I tried the best I could but it only compiles with the latest versions of dmd 1 and dsss... :/
> 
> I know of a patch to gtkd to compile it with gdc, but I read that it still segfaults.

no, haven't tried. the only libs i've been using with GDC so far are Tango and Phobos.

Leandro Lucarella wrote:

> Is there anybody who knows anything about the GDC internals, where is the
> glue code that uses the DMD frontend for example?

There's some info over at the "The GDC Hackers Guild":
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GdcHacking

But the frontend code is mostly in the directory "dmd"
(see also "dmd2" for the D2 version of the same thing)

http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DMDSourceGuide
The Wiki pages are a bit outdated, feel free to update.

--anders

Leandro Lucarella wrote:

> I talked recently with Arthur Loiret, a Debian (or Ubuntu?) maintainer who
> patched GDC to compile with CGG 4.2 asking him if he send the patches to
> David, and he answer that he tried to contact David with no success.
> 
> I guess David lost interest in GDC. I'd like to pick it up myself in a
> near future (I'm starting my thesis and I'll work with D), but I don't
> have the time to give it all the love it deserves right now.

I used to make binary builds for GDC over at gdcwin/gdcgnu/gdcmac,
but since "dgcc" makes binary releases since "DMD 1.000" (GDC 0.21)
I haven't had to do that in a while but instead can just repackage
the binary tarball, as released from http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/ :

gdc-0.24-mingw32-gcc-3.4.5.tar.bz2
gdc-0.24-i686-linux-gnu-gcc-4.1.2.tar.bz2
gdc-0.24-powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc-4.1.2.tar.bz2
gdc-0.24-macosx-universal-gcc-5363.tar.bz2

The packaging formats used is EXE for Win, RPM for GNU, PKG for Mac.
I also made a build of the GDB debugger, with the D patches applied.
But all the actual code patches and changes that I made are upstream
now, except for some pending updates to the man pages (pretty minor)

--anders

downs wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> So what's up with GDC these days?  Haven't seen any releases in a while.
>> I'm trying to build mingw version from SVN now.
>> Thinking of putting up periodic snapshots if I can manage that.
>> Might be interested in helping keep up to date with DMD in other ways if
>> I can help.
>>
>> I'm sure there are plenty of folks out there who could offer a little
>> time here and there to help maintain web-pages and tarballs for
>> up-to-date GDC releases.   So let's do it!
>>
>> --bb
> 
> I asked if GDC was ded a few months back.
> 
> My question was mostly met with ridicule.

You only got two replies and of those only one ridiculed you!

> That post is about one page up in my newsreader. I don't think there have been significant SVN commits in this time.

Last post here from David looks like it was Nov. 2007.

I'm not as worried about there not being any commits as I am about him not having made a single appearance on the NG in almost 4 months.

--bb

Bill Baxter wrote:
> So what's up with GDC these days?  Haven't seen any releases in a while.
> I'm trying to build mingw version from SVN now.
> Thinking of putting up periodic snapshots if I can manage that.
> Might be interested in helping keep up to date with DMD in other ways if I can help.
> 
> I'm sure there are plenty of folks out there who could offer a little time here and there to help maintain web-pages and tarballs for up-to-date GDC releases.   So let's do it!
> 
> --bb

When I first started using GDC, I thought it was dead. Then, six months later, it sprung back to life, and was fairly active up until r199.

David has a busy life. If he doesn't have time for GDC right now, that's too bad for us, but it's his right to work on it when and only when he feels like it. It's not like we're paying him.

 - Gregor Richards