Trying to install gdc on Sparc box with (gcc 4.6.3, see below).

$ uname -a
Linux cps-pe101d24518 3.2.0-4-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u2 sparc64 GNU/Linux

$ gcc --version
gcc (Debian 4.6.3-14) 4.6.3
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

$ gdc-4.4 --version
gdc-4.4 (Debian 4.4.7-1) 4.4.7
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

$ gdc-4.4 hello.d
cc1d: warning: command line option "-imultilib" is valid for C/C++/Fortran/ObjC/ObjC++ but not for D
hello.d:9: Error: undefined identifier writeln, did you mean function writefln?
hello.d:9: Error: function expected before (), not __error of type _error_

./a.out
Bus error

There is another gdc in repository gdc-v1 too.
Any ideas?

-ish

Am Wed, 02 Dec 2015 17:04:57 +0000
schrieb Ish <ratta1i@cmich.edu>:

> Trying to install gdc on Sparc box with (gcc 4.6.3, see below).
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux cps-pe101d24518 3.2.0-4-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian
> 3.2.68-1+deb7u2 sparc64 GNU/Linux
> 
> $ gcc --version
> gcc (Debian 4.6.3-14) 4.6.3
> Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> 
> $ gdc-4.4 --version
> gdc-4.4 (Debian 4.4.7-1) 4.4.7
> Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> 
> $ gdc-4.4 hello.d
> cc1d: warning: command line option "-imultilib" is valid for
> C/C++/Fortran/ObjC/ObjC++ but not for D
> hello.d:9: Error: undefined identifier writeln, did you mean
> function writefln?
> hello.d:9: Error: function expected before (), not __error of
> type _error_
> 
> ./a.out
> Bus error
> 
> There is another gdc in repository gdc-v1 too.
> Any ideas?
> 
> -ish

I think that GDC version is just very old and it's D1. I'm not sure if recent GDC releases work on SPARC though.

> cc1d: warning: command line option "-imultilib" is valid for C/C++/Fortran/ObjC/ObjC++ but not for D

This is fixed in newer GDC versions, but this should not cause real problems anyway, it's just a warning.

> hello.d:9: Error: undefined identifier writeln, did you mean function writefln?

Looks like there's no writeln function in D1?

> ./a.out
> Bus error

There shouldn't even be a a.out file if that writeln error happened before?


TLDR: You probably want a recent D2 compiler but I don't think any of the D2 compilers actually supports SPARC right now.