Glad to announce LDC 1.24 - some highlights:

- Based on D 2.094.1+.
- Support for LLVM 11. The prebuilt packages use v11.0.0, and the x86 packages newly include the LLVM backend for AMD GPUs.
- Experimental support for targeting macOS on 64-bit ARM. The macOS package includes prebuilt druntime/Phobos libraries for cross-compilation via `-mtriple=arm64-apple-macos`.

Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.24.0

Thanks to all contributors & sponsors!

On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 15:11:08 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Glad to announce LDC 1.24 - some highlights:
>
> - Based on D 2.094.1+.
> - Support for LLVM 11. The prebuilt packages use v11.0.0, and the x86 packages newly include the LLVM backend for AMD GPUs.
> - Experimental support for targeting macOS on 64-bit ARM. The macOS package includes prebuilt druntime/Phobos libraries for cross-compilation via `-mtriple=arm64-apple-macos`.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.24.0
>
> Thanks to all contributors & sponsors!

Thank you for another great release.

Kind regards
Andre

On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 15:11:08 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Glad to announce LDC 1.24 - some highlights:
>
> - Based on D 2.094.1+.
> - Support for LLVM 11. The prebuilt packages use v11.0.0, and the x86 packages newly include the LLVM backend for AMD GPUs.
> - Experimental support for targeting macOS on 64-bit ARM. The macOS package includes prebuilt druntime/Phobos libraries for cross-compilation via `-mtriple=arm64-apple-macos`.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.24.0
>
> Thanks to all contributors & sponsors!

Thanks Martin!

FYI: this is the first release that includes a working ThreadSanitizer. Curious to hear people's experiences with it.
Cmdline flag:  -fsanitize=thread
https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/ThreadSanitizerCppManual

Examples:
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/blob/master/tests/sanitizers/tsan_tiny_race.d
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/blob/master/tests/sanitizers/tsan_tiny_race_TLS.d

cheers,
  Johan

On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 15:11:08 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Glad to announce LDC 1.24 - some highlights:
>
> - Based on D 2.094.1+.
> - Support for LLVM 11. The prebuilt packages use v11.0.0, and the x86 packages newly include the LLVM backend for AMD GPUs.
> - Experimental support for targeting macOS on 64-bit ARM. The macOS package includes prebuilt druntime/Phobos libraries for cross-compilation via `-mtriple=arm64-apple-macos`.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.24.0
>
> Thanks to all contributors & sponsors!

Thanks for all your work on this and the great releases!

On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 15:11:08 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Glad to announce LDC 1.24 - some highlights:
>
> - Based on D 2.094.1+.
> - Support for LLVM 11. The prebuilt packages use v11.0.0, and the x86 packages newly include the LLVM backend for AMD GPUs.
> - Experimental support for targeting macOS on 64-bit ARM. The macOS package includes prebuilt druntime/Phobos libraries for cross-compilation via `-mtriple=arm64-apple-macos`.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.24.0
>
> Thanks to all contributors & sponsors!

Splendid!

On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 15:11:08 UTC, kinke wrote:
> [...]

Arch Linux packages are still at 1.23[1]. They were flagged as outdated on Oct 25th.

Does anyone know the package maintainers? Is there something blocking an update?


[1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/ldc/

On Saturday, 7 November 2020 at 15:02:42 UTC, Anonymouse wrote:
> On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 15:11:08 UTC, kinke wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Arch Linux packages are still at 1.23[1]. They were flagged as outdated on Oct 25th.
>
> Does anyone know the package maintainers? Is there something blocking an update?
>
>
> [1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/ldc/

Sorry, I've been waiting for the LLVM 11 package rebuild[1] to finish
to make the packaging easier. But as so much time have passed I should
probably just do it anyway.

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/todo/llvm-11/

On Saturday, 7 November 2020 at 23:54:51 UTC, Dan Printzell wrote:
> Sorry, I've been waiting for the LLVM 11 package rebuild[1] to finish
> to make the packaging easier. But as so much time have passed I should
> probably just do it anyway.
>
> [1] https://www.archlinux.org/todo/llvm-11/

I see they hit the repositories yesterday. Thanks!

On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 15:11:08 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Glad to announce LDC 1.24 - some highlights:
>
> - Based on D 2.094.1+.
> - Support for LLVM 11. The prebuilt packages use v11.0.0, and the x86 packages newly include the LLVM backend for AMD GPUs.
> - Experimental support for targeting macOS on 64-bit ARM. The macOS package includes prebuilt druntime/Phobos libraries for cross-compilation via `-mtriple=arm64-apple-macos`.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.24.0
>
> Thanks to all contributors & sponsors!

Thank you ldc team. I know this is rather late to post the thank you, but wanted to let you know using your experimental support for targeting macOS on arm, I was actually able to build a native ldc for Mac m1. If anyone else wants to do the same here is what I did:

* Installed homebrew for m1 arm
* brew install llvm
* Downloaded your ldc Mac and used it as the bootstrap compiler
* Modified the ldc2.conf to fix the incorrect Xcode sysroot for the arm path (will file you a ticket for this)
* Cmake like in the wiki
* Modified build.ninja to get rid of some weird isysroot generations
* ninja build and ninja install and whooohoo I have a native arm compile tool chain for D

On Sunday, 13 December 2020 at 08:12:37 UTC, Jarrett Tierney wrote:
> I know this is rather late to post the thank you, but wanted to let you know using your experimental support for targeting macOS on arm, I was actually able to build a native ldc for Mac m1.

Much appreciated, thanks for letting us know.