Hi everyone,

LDC 0.12.1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download!
This is a bug-fix only release. It is built on the 2.063.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.1-3.3 (OS X: 3.2 only).

As usual, you can find links to the changelog and the binary packages over at digitalmars.D.ldc:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/fmhdagtwppcpkajgrmkt@forum.dlang.org

Regards,
Kai

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Kai Nacke <kai@redstar.de> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> LDC 0.12.1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download!
> This is a bug-fix only release. It is built on the 2.063.2 frontend and
> standard library and supports LLVM 3.1-3.3 (OS X: 3.2 only).
>
> As usual, you can find links to the changelog and the binary packages over at digitalmars.D.ldc: http://forum.dlang.org/post/fmhdagtwppcpkajgrmkt@forum.dlang.org
>
> Regards,
> Kai
>

Nice. Any chance that the packages are able to have a similar layout to dmd? I use this command line to add each dmd as an alternative in Ubuntu would be nice to add ldc as an option.

update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/dmd dmd /usr/lib/dmd/dmd-2063/dmd2/linux/bin64/dmd 2 --slave /usr/bin/rdmd rdmd /usr/lib/dmd/dmd-2063/dmd2/linux/bin64/rdmd --slave /usr/bin/dman dman /usr/lib/dmd/dmd-2063/dmd2/linux/bin64/dman --slave /usr/bin/ddemangle ddemangle /usr/lib/dmd/dmd-2063/dmd2/linux/bin64/ddemangle --slave /usr/bin/dumpobj dumpobj /usr/lib/dmd/dmd-2063/dmd2/linux/bin64/dumpobj --slave /usr/bin/obj2asm obj2asm /usr/lib/dmd/dmd-2063/dmd2/linux/bin64/obj2asm --slave /etc/dmd.conf dmd.conf /usr/lib/dmd/dmd-2063/dmd2/linux/bin64/dmd.conf --slave /usr/include/d/phobos phobos /usr/lib/dmd/dmd-2063/dmd2/src/phobos --slave /usr/include/d/druntime druntime /usr/lib/dmd/dmd-2063/dmd2/src/druntime --slave /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libphobos2.so libphobos2 /usr/lib/dmd/dmd-2063/dmd2/linux/lib64/libphobos2.so --slave /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libphobos2.so libphobos2-i386.so /usr/lib/dmd/dmd-2063/dmd2/linux/lib32/libphobos2.so --slave /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a libphobos2.a /usr/lib/dmd/dmd-2063/dmd2/linux/lib64/libphobos2.a --slave /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a libphobos2-i386.a /usr/lib/dmd/dmd-2063/dmd2/linux/lib32/libphobos2.a

Hi Rory!

On Tuesday, 3 December 2013 at 09:00:25 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote:
> Nice. Any chance that the packages are able to have a similar layout to dmd?

The binary packages follow the simple pattern that you can extract them into /opt, add the path to the bin folder and start using LDC.

The important piece of information is etc/ldc2.conf. You can rearrange even the binary package as you want as long as you keep ldc2.conf in sync.

So, yes, the packages can be arranged in a similar layout to dmd. A simple shell script should be able to do this.

Regards,
Kai

On Tuesday, 3 December 2013 at 09:00:25 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote:
> Nice. Any chance that the packages are able to have a similar layout to dmd?

It is easy to just rearrange the files to match DMD's directory structure, you just have to update ldc2.conf accordingly.

However, as we don't ship one big archive for all possible operating systems (including the source code) like DMD does, but binary-only packages for each OS, I think adopting the DMD zip directory structure would only be confusing. The current layout is supposed to make it as easy as possible to just extract the archive somewhere and immediately be able to use the compiler (I use /opt/ldc… for keeping the different releases around, but you could also extract the files to /usr/local directly).

But I believe what you were asking for is a layout to match the DMD .deb packages? In this case, this would be a a job for the person providing LDC Debian packages, which we – unfortunately – currently don't have at all. Since LDC is Free Software in the Debian sense, it should even be possible to include it in the official repositories (again). There were a few discussions in that direction, but I don't think anything concrete resulted from that yet. Please contact us if you would be able to help with this!

David

Okay thanks, I guess its easy enough for me to just change my command.

Actually I guess I'll just make a new setup for ldc. Would have been nice to treat them as the same command line interface so I didn't have to change anything. :) easy enough to just start typing ldc instead of dmd.



On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Kai Nacke <kai@redstar.de> wrote:

> Hi Rory!
>
>
> On Tuesday, 3 December 2013 at 09:00:25 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote:
>
>> Nice. Any chance that the packages are able to have a similar layout to dmd?
>>
>
> The binary packages follow the simple pattern that you can extract them into /opt, add the path to the bin folder and start using LDC.
>
> The important piece of information is etc/ldc2.conf. You can rearrange even the binary package as you want as long as you keep ldc2.conf in sync.
>
> So, yes, the packages can be arranged in a similar layout to dmd. A simple shell script should be able to do this.
>
> Regards,
> Kai
>