Thread overview
D for other architectures?
Apr 19, 2004
James Longstreet
Apr 19, 2004
resistor
Apr 19, 2004
Mike Hearn
April 19, 2004
Is a D compiler planned for architectures other than x86?  In particular...
perhaps... oh, I don't know...
PPC running Mac OS X? ;)  This also raises the question of executable formats...
assumably the Linux
compiler would generate ELF executables, but on OS X they would need to be
Mach-O.


April 19, 2004
If you came here from my article, I suggest checking the D for GCC reference at the end.  That'll take you to the D.gnu newsgroup here, where a GCC frontend for D is underway.  And yes, it does currently compile on OS X.

Owen

In article <c610v9$qmr$1@digitaldaemon.com>, James Longstreet says...
>
>Is a D compiler planned for architectures other than x86?  In particular...
>perhaps... oh, I don't know...
>PPC running Mac OS X? ;)  This also raises the question of executable formats...
>assumably the Linux
>compiler would generate ELF executables, but on OS X they would need to be
>Mach-O.
>
>


April 19, 2004
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:06:49 +0000, James Longstreet wrote:
> Is a D compiler planned for architectures other than x86?  In particular...
> perhaps... oh, I don't know...
> PPC running Mac OS X? ;)  This also raises the question of executable formats...
> assumably the Linux
> compiler would generate ELF executables, but on OS X they would need to be
> Mach-O.

The GCC frontend for D can generate PPC binaries, and works on OS X albiet with rather limited functionality.

thanks -mike