http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3527

           Summary: DMD won't compile on FreeBSD (freebsd.mak doesn't seem
                    to be maintained)
           Product: D
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: FreeBSD
            Status: NEW
          Severity: trivial
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody@puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: boucher.travis@gmail.com


--- Comment #0 from Travis Boucher <boucher.travis@gmail.com> 2009-11-19 17:09:37 PST ---
Created an attachment (id=502)
Quick fix for freebsd.mak

Issues look to be related to the linux.mak file being kept up to date with source changes, but the freebsd.mak not being.

When compiling, first dwarf.c complains about not finding mars.h.  This is fixed in the linux.make by adding -I. to the c flags.

When linking, complains about missing symbols related to json, the freebsd.mak doesn't even try to compile json.

Attached is a trivial patch which fixes the issues.

Since the fix was to just copy the linux.mak to freebsd.mak, then update the CFLAGS and MFLAGS to change the TARGET_LINUX to TARGET_FREEBSD, the issue is trivial.

A proper fix would be to create a generic Makefile (or posix.mak if you prefer), and use another method of specifying the proper defines for the specific OS.

GNU Make has rich string manipulation routines which would be used to parse `uname`.  However this adds the dependency of GNU Make (currently the makefile works with BSD make, which is something I like).

Another option is to use the compiler defined macros, and use an 'os.h' or similar file to define TARGET_LINUX, TARGET_FREEBSD, etc.  This has the advantage of not requiring too many modifications as new code is added to the codebase and could even combine the windows makefile with the unix one (possibly).  The biggest disadvantage I can see in this method is os.h will be one big mess (as most C pre-processor portability code is).

Other things I'd like to see is cleaning up the legacy mess of the mars symlink.  Quick & dirty fix would be to have the make file make the symlink itself so the build process becomes:  cd src && make

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--- Comment #1 from Travis Boucher <boucher.travis@gmail.com> 2009-11-19 17:11:38 PST ---
If the idea of a unified make file (for at least unix) is something that is wanted, I'd be glad to craft something up.

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Walter Bright <bugzilla@digitalmars.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |bugzilla@digitalmars.com
         Resolution|                            |FIXED


--- Comment #2 from Walter Bright <bugzilla@digitalmars.com> 2009-12-07 01:30:03 PST ---
Fixed dmd 1.054

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