I notice that in the new release for Alpine Linux it mentions support for D.

I was curious what was meant by this and thought someone here would know. Just high level, like druntime was ported or packages added to the repo?

On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 14:23:34 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> I notice that in the new release for Alpine Linux it mentions support for D.

Announcement: https://forum.dlang.org/thread/raue6j$1vp4$2@digitalmars.com

On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 14:23:34 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> I notice that in the new release for Alpine Linux it mentions support for D.
>
> I was curious what was meant by this and thought someone here would know. Just high level, like druntime was ported or packages added to the repo?

Tradionally you'd run D on something like Ubuntu, etc but Alpine is lightweight which is a good thing when building docker containers. Alpine uses a different C runtime musl?? among other things whilst D uses use libc. So I believe we now have bindings musl too to get D to work on Alpine.

On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 at 01:06:30 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 14:23:34 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> I notice that in the new release for Alpine Linux it mentions support for D.
>>
>> I was curious what was meant by this and thought someone here would know. Just high level, like druntime was ported or packages added to the repo?
>
> Tradionally you'd run D on something like Ubuntu, etc but Alpine is lightweight which is a good thing when building docker containers. Alpine uses a different C runtime musl?? among other things whilst D uses use libc. So I believe we now have bindings musl too to get D to work on Alpine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musl

On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 at 01:06:30 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 14:23:34 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> I notice that in the new release for Alpine Linux it mentions support for D.
>>
>> I was curious what was meant by this and thought someone here would know. Just high level, like druntime was ported or packages added to the repo?
>
> Tradionally you'd run D on something like Ubuntu, etc but Alpine is lightweight which is a good thing when building docker containers. Alpine uses a different C runtime musl?? among other things whilst D uses use libc. So I believe we now have bindings musl too to get D to work on Alpine.

Thank you. So it sounds like there are D compiler packages, and you can use alpine to execute programs written in D.

On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 at 12:59:33 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 at 01:06:30 UTC, aberba wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 14:23:34 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>>> I notice that in the new release for Alpine Linux it mentions support for D.
>>>
>>> I was curious what was meant by this and thought someone here would know. Just high level, like druntime was ported or packages added to the repo?
>>
>> Tradionally you'd run D on something like Ubuntu, etc but Alpine is lightweight which is a good thing when building docker containers. Alpine uses a different C runtime musl?? among other things whilst D uses use libc. So I believe we now have bindings musl too to get D to work on Alpine.
>
> Thank you. So it sounds like there are D compiler packages, and you can use alpine to execute programs written in D.

Yes, here a Dockerfile example, which installs ldc and dub.

```
FROM alpine:3.12 as base

RUN apk add --update alpine-sdk ldc dub openssl-dev zlib-dev
```

Kind regards
Andre