On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 16:27:31 UTC, Ken Burgett wrote:

I am looking at doing a D project and have installed the DMD compiler on my 64-bit Ubuntu dev system.  My target architecture to ARM, as used in the Raspberry PI and other systems.  I need to know how I can develop code on Linux x86 and run it on the RPI.  Any pointer to an article about this topic is appreciated.

Download x86_64-linux-gnu toolchain targeting arm-linux-gnueabihf from [1] (its the second row). For Raspberry Pi it works out of the box, try:

$ /opt/arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gdc hello.d -o hello

$ file hello
hello: ELF 32-bit LSB  executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, not stripped

To build with dub, you need to pass the --compiler flag, e.g.

$ dub build --compiler=/opt/arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gdc

This can even build vibe.d apps for RPi, provided that you have all target .so files (AFAIK these are libevent, libevent_pthread, libssl and libcrypto).

qemu-arm-static can execute statically linked ARM linux apps right on your PC.