The GNU package manager updated LDC to 1.7.0 which now provides x86_64-linux, see https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/L/. Runtime dependencies and build are listed at https://hydra.gnu.org/build/2525193#tabs-runtime-deps, including 0.17.4 (bootstrap) and LLVM 3.8.1.

LDC 0.17.4 provides x86_64-linux, i686-linux, armhf-linux.

We aim to add D compilers for all supported architectures.

Note that GNU Guix can run on top of all Linux distributions because it is self-contained. Guix includes all its dependencies (except the kernel) and can be removed easily.

On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 08:43:25 UTC, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> The GNU package manager updated LDC to 1.7.0 which now provides x86_64-linux, see https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/L/. Runtime dependencies and build are listed at https://hydra.gnu.org/build/2525193#tabs-runtime-deps, including 0.17.4 (bootstrap) and LLVM 3.8.1.
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> LDC 0.17.4 provides x86_64-linux, i686-linux, armhf-linux.
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> We aim to add D compilers for all supported architectures.

Kai has been working recently [1] on updating LDC 0.17.x (ltsmaster) to work with LLVM 6, PowerPC, AArch64, ...  You may want to take advantage of that activity to get better bootstrap compiler support for your platforms. For example by filing bug reports, or better: helping out with testing and fixing things ;-)

-Johan

[1] See e.g. https://github.com/ldc-developers/dmd-testsuite/pull/34

On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 12:41:28 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
> Kai has been working recently [1] on updating LDC 0.17.x (ltsmaster) to work with LLVM 6, PowerPC, AArch64, ...  You may want to take advantage of that activity to get better bootstrap compiler support for your platforms. For example by filing bug reports, or better: helping out with testing and fixing things ;-)

Sure thing. Guix can support multiple versions of LLVM and build against those, so you can inject different dependencies (read versions of LLVM) in the dependency graph. I am quite keen to use the latest for my tools.