Looking at https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads I see that every file is compiled for windows and has no releases for any other platforms.  I assume this is probably just an artifact of what the main developer(s) use, but it makes me wonder.  How stable is GDC on other platforms?

Am 19.04.2011 03:09, schrieb Jason House:
> Looking at https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads I see that every file is compiled for windows and has no releases for any other platforms.  I assume this is probably just an artifact of what the main developer(s) use, but it makes me wonder.  How stable is GDC on other platforms?

It's mainly developed on Linux. There are compiled Windows versions because
compiling it on windows is such a pain in the ass.
If you're using another Platform (Linux/OSX/FreeBSD) compile it yourself
or install it from your distributions repository (there are GDC packages
for Debian and Ubuntu, for example. Only for D1, though) :)

Cheers,
- Daniel

Daniel Gibson Wrote:

> Am 19.04.2011 03:09, schrieb Jason House:
> > Looking at https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads I see that every file is compiled for windows and has no releases for any other platforms.  I assume this is probably just an artifact of what the main developer(s) use, but it makes me wonder.  How stable is GDC on other platforms?
> 
> It's mainly developed on Linux. There are compiled Windows versions because
> compiling it on windows is such a pain in the ass.
> If you're using another Platform (Linux/OSX/FreeBSD) compile it yourself
> or install it from your distributions repository (there are GDC packages
> for Debian and Ubuntu, for example. Only for D1, though) :)
> 
> Cheers,
> - Daniel

I'm interested in D2 support under Ubuntu. I've compiled GDC from source in the past (before the project was resumed/forked). It took forever and had a lot of dependencies that I had to install, etc... Why is there a D1 package and not a D2 package?

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Jason House <jason.james.house@gmail.com> wrote:
> Daniel Gibson Wrote:
>
>> Am 19.04.2011 03:09, schrieb Jason House:
>> > Looking at https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads I see that every file is compiled for windows and has no releases for any other platforms.  I assume this is probably just an artifact of what the main developer(s) use, but it makes me wonder.  How stable is GDC on other platforms?
>>
>> It's mainly developed on Linux. There are compiled Windows versions because
>> compiling it on windows is such a pain in the ass.
>> If you're using another Platform (Linux/OSX/FreeBSD) compile it yourself
>> or install it from your distributions repository (there are GDC packages
>> for Debian and Ubuntu, for example. Only for D1, though) :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - Daniel
>
> I'm interested in D2 support under Ubuntu. I've compiled GDC from source in the past (before the project was resumed/forked). It took forever and had a lot of dependencies that I had to install, etc... Why is there a D1 package and not a D2 package?
>

As far as I remember, the dependencies are the same as GCC, which isn't actually that much. It takes a while if you don't specify "--disable-bootstrap" to keep GCC from building itself three times and verifying that the last two times are identical.