Now works for FreeBSD 7.1!

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.043.zip

The D2 version for FreeBSD isn't ready yet. Lots of library work to be done.

Yay!

But every time you give, we demand more. Where's dmd for 64 bit platforms?

== Quote from grauzone (none@example.net)'s article
> Yay!
> But every time you give, we demand more. Where's dmd for 64 bit platforms?

I assume a 64-bit port would be significantly harder than the Mac or FreeBSD ports because it would require writing a whole new codegen, or at least heavily modifying the existing one.

Walter Bright wrote:
> Now works for FreeBSD 7.1!
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.043.zip
> 
> The D2 version for FreeBSD isn't ready yet. Lots of library work to be done.

awesome!

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:20 AM, dsimcha <dsimcha@yahoo.com> wrote:
> == Quote from grauzone (none@example.net)'s article
>> Yay!
>> But every time you give, we demand more. Where's dmd for 64 bit platforms?
>
> I assume a 64-bit port would be significantly harder than the Mac or FreeBSD ports because it would require writing a whole new codegen, or at least heavily modifying the existing one.
>

Or - cough, cough - using a different backend.

Which has already been done.

Twice.

On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:07:38 +0200
grauzone <none@example.net> wrote:

> Yay!
> 
> But every time you give, we demand more. Where's dmd for 64 bit platforms?

I use 64 bit freebsd too but thanks anyway.

Tim Matthews wrote:
> I use 64 bit freebsd too but thanks anyway.

I suspect most FreeBSD users are using 64 bits.

Now that there's four platforms supported it would be quite nice with separate archives for each. .tar.gz for Linux, FreeBSD and OS X... .zip for Windows.

2009/4/6 Walter Bright <newshound1@digitalmars.com>:
> Now works for FreeBSD 7.1!
>
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.043.zip
>
> The D2 version for FreeBSD isn't ready yet. Lots of library work to be done.
>



-- 
Anders Bergh

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:53:35 -0700
Walter Bright <newshound1@digitalmars.com> wrote:

> I suspect most FreeBSD users are using 64 bits.

There is a lot using 32bit if they need hardware accelerated nvidia graphics but yes the majority is probably using 64 bit.

I tried compiling tango yesterday (with 'make runtime' from the ldc directory) and it would fail even after I'd applied all the not yet commited patches. It may build other ways but have not yet tried.

Is there any known issues or not yet tested features of either dmd or phobos 1 on freebsd?

Tim Matthews wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:53:35 -0700
> Walter Bright <newshound1@digitalmars.com> wrote:
>  
>> I suspect most FreeBSD users are using 64 bits.
> 
> There is a lot using 32bit if they need hardware accelerated nvidia
> graphics but yes the majority is probably using 64 bit.
> 
> I tried compiling tango yesterday (with 'make runtime' from the ldc
> directory) and it would fail even after I'd applied all the not yet
> commited patches. It may build other ways but have not yet tried.
> 
> Is there any known issues or not yet tested features of either dmd or
> phobos 1 on freebsd?

No, there are no known issues. It passes the dmd test suite 100% as well as all the library unit tests. If you can isolate any of these down to dmd/phobos and post them to bugzilla, I would appreciate it as it will not only improve the FreeBSD port but will improve the test suite to aid in the rest of dmd development.