Afternoon all,

I think D Lang has such potential :)

I wonder if there are any plans to implement on aarch64? Which would be useful in schools/colleges, SBC projects etc.

Or release aarch64 binaries, etc

I just loaded up the installer on a Pi 400 (running Diet Pi (based on Debian bullseye)) and got:

"time curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s dmd
Downloading https://dlang.org/d-keyring.gpg
######################################################################## 100.0%
Downloading https://dlang.org/install.sh
######################################################################## 100.0%
gpg: keybox '/home/brian/.gnupg/pubring.kbx' created
gpg: /home/brian/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
The latest version of this script was installed as ~/dlang/install.sh.
It can be used it to install further D compilers.
Run ~/dlang/install.sh --help for usage information.

no DMD binaries available for aarch64

real 0m4.018s
user 0m0.496s
sys 0m0.462s"

Good luck, Brian

On Monday, 28 August 2023 at 14:38:36 UTC, BrianLinuxing wrote:

Both GDC and LDC should support Linux aarch64. LDC even has file in Releases https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.34.0

On Monday, 28 August 2023 at 15:04:25 UTC, Sergey wrote:

Thank you that looks good :)

But is it the full installer and all of the bits?

As an aside, I found the build for Android instructions on the wiki, https://wiki.dlang.org/Build_D_for_Android

Is there a similar guide, etc for basic *nix systems? Am happy to build it from scratch on the Raspberry Pi 400 (Google searches didn't reveal that much)

Any helpful pointers would be useful, thanks :)

On Monday, 28 August 2023 at 15:14:52 UTC, BrianLinuxing wrote:

I never worked with Pi boards, but in the archive from release should be binaries and some internal libraries. Usually just unzip + put some environment variables/path is enough.

Also this is bit outdated example (not mine): https://gist.github.com/shabunin/8e3af1725c1c45f225174e9c2ee1557a
Maybe it could be reused.

There is also a docker container (https://github.com/Reavershark/ldc2-raspberry-pi) where you can try to build software for Pi on your regular computer.

Moreover you can try the same installation script as in your first message, but use -ldc instead of -dmd in the end. But I think using files from GitHub Releases of official LDC repo will be better and easier.

On Monday, 28 August 2023 at 15:14:52 UTC, BrianLinuxing wrote:

The official install.sh script will download ldc on ARM too, just as well as on x86. I use it on my Pi400.

On Monday, 28 August 2023 at 15:38:34 UTC, Sergey wrote:

Thank you Sergey, that is the answer.

And it seems to work well :)