Hi,

I've started a discussion about packaging D libraries and programs for
Debian:
http://code.google.com/p/d-apt/issues/detail?id=1

From this discussion I learned, that it would make a difference which version of which compiler created a library. Isn't it that it doesn't matter which C compiler created a library that you want to link against?

Could you point me to more information about this issue? I'm just starting to learn D and also don't have practical experience with C.

Regards,

Thomas Koch

On 2012-09-16 09:59, Thomas Koch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've started a discussion about packaging D libraries and programs for
> Debian:
> http://code.google.com/p/d-apt/issues/detail?id=1
>
>  From this discussion I learned, that it would make a difference which
> version of which compiler created a library. Isn't it that it doesn't matter
> which C compiler created a library that you want to link against?
>
> Could you point me to more information about this issue? I'm just starting
> to learn D and also don't have practical experience with C.
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas Koch
>

The runtimes are slightly different and the calling conventions are sometimes different. For example, GDC uses the C calling convention of the system wheres DMD uses a slightly modified version.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 16/09/12 12:25, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> The runtimes are slightly different and the calling conventions are sometimes
> different. For example, GDC uses the C calling convention of the system wheres
> DMD uses a slightly modified version.

If we're talking Debian, the only compilers to consider are GDC and LDC -- DMD is non-free by Debian standards.

On 2012-09-17 01:33, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:

> If we're talking Debian, the only compilers to consider are GDC and LDC
> -- DMD is non-free by Debian standards.

I'm sure the runtimes are different anyway. Although, I don't know how LDC handles the calling convention.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg