Glad to announce LDC 1.11:

* Based on D 2.081.2.
* Prebuilt packages now using LLVM 6.0.1 and including additional cross-compilation targets (MIPS, MSP430, RISC-V and WebAssembly).
* Rudimentary support for compiling & linking directly to WebAssembly. See the dedicated Wiki page [1] for how to get started.
* AArch64 (64-bit ARM) now mostly working on Linux/glibc and Android.
* Some support for classes without TypeInfos, for -betterC and/or a minimal (d)runtime.

Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.11.0

Thanks to all contributors!

[1] https://wiki.dlang.org/Generating_WebAssembly_with_LDC

On Saturday, 18 August 2018 at 16:47:35 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Glad to announce LDC 1.11:
>
> * Based on D 2.081.2.
> * Prebuilt packages now using LLVM 6.0.1 and including additional cross-compilation targets (MIPS, MSP430, RISC-V and WebAssembly).
> * Rudimentary support for compiling & linking directly to WebAssembly. See the dedicated Wiki page [1] for how to get started.
> * AArch64 (64-bit ARM) now mostly working on Linux/glibc and Android.
> * Some support for classes without TypeInfos, for -betterC and/or a minimal (d)runtime.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.11.0
>
> Thanks to all contributors!
>
> [1] https://wiki.dlang.org/Generating_WebAssembly_with_LDC

Awesome news! Will we get a release of the ltsmaster branch as well? From the release notes it sounds like building with a more recent version is a good idea...

Many thanks for your effort!
And hope the subsequent LDC releases with LLVM 7.0 will be mature enough on AArch64 and RISC-V for production environment.

On Saturday, 18 August 2018 at 16:47:35 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Glad to announce LDC 1.11:
>
> * Based on D 2.081.2.
> * Prebuilt packages now using LLVM 6.0.1 and including additional cross-compilation targets (MIPS, MSP430, RISC-V and WebAssembly).
> * Rudimentary support for compiling & linking directly to WebAssembly. See the dedicated Wiki page [1] for how to get started.
> * AArch64 (64-bit ARM) now mostly working on Linux/glibc and Android.
> * Some support for classes without TypeInfos, for -betterC and/or a minimal (d)runtime.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.11.0
>
> Thanks to all contributors!
>
> [1] https://wiki.dlang.org/Generating_WebAssembly_with_LDC

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On Saturday, 18 August 2018 at 21:05:42 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> Will we get a release of the ltsmaster branch as well? From the release notes it sounds like building with a more recent version is a good idea...

Using latest ltsmaster is always a good idea. I'm a bit reluctant to tag a new version, as it's a moving target (e.g., needed another adaptation yesterday in order to be able to bootstrap 2.082-based LDC, and will need more adaptations in a few weeks for LLVM 7...). 0.17.6 has been stuck in the pipeline for half a year now; perhaps we finally manage after LLVM 7 is supported.

On Sunday, 19 August 2018 at 10:11:42 UTC, 鲜卑拓跋枫 wrote:
> And hope the subsequent LDC releases with LLVM 7.0 will be mature enough on AArch64 and RISC-V for production environment.

Hope is good, contributing better. ;) AArch64 needs polishing, wading through the logs and analyzing & fixing (or disabling/adapting unfitting tests) the remaining test failures.

As to RISC-V, I don't think there's any library support at all right now, so there's probably still a long way to go for something close to being usable. Claiming (and maintaining) production-readiness requires a CI service for RISC-V.

On Sunday, 19 August 2018 at 12:23:37 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Saturday, 18 August 2018 at 21:05:42 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
>> Will we get a release of the ltsmaster branch as well? From the release notes it sounds like building with a more recent version is a good idea...
>
> Using latest ltsmaster is always a good idea. I'm a bit reluctant to tag a new version, as it's a moving target (e.g., needed another adaptation yesterday in order to be able to bootstrap 2.082-based LDC, and will need more adaptations in a few weeks for LLVM 7...). 0.17.6 has been stuck in the pipeline for half a year now; perhaps we finally manage after LLVM 7 is supported.

The thing is, a release is actually tremendously helpful for the Debian packaging - we are using the latest tagged version there for ages.
I could, if you think that it is a good idea, just use a snapshot of the current ltsmaster Git branch, but that makes it harder to track with which ltsmaster state the Debian package was actually built with.

On Sunday, 19 August 2018 at 12:36:07 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> The thing is, a release is actually tremendously helpful for the Debian packaging - we are using the latest tagged version there for ages.
> I could, if you think that it is a good idea, just use a snapshot of the current ltsmaster Git branch

That'd be no work for us, so I'd clearly prefer it this way. ;)

> but that makes it harder to track with which ltsmaster state the Debian package was actually built with.

The used host compiler, incl. git hash if untagged, can be found in the --version output:

```
LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.12.0git-1c87fd7):
  based on DMD v2.082.0 and LLVM 6.0.0
  built with LDC - the LLVM D compiler (0.17.6git-79d2284)
```

On Sunday, 19 August 2018 at 12:48:15 UTC, kinke wrote:
> [...]
> The used host compiler, incl. git hash if untagged, can be found in the --version output:
>
> ```
> LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.12.0git-1c87fd7):
>   based on DMD v2.082.0 and LLVM 6.0.0
>   built with LDC - the LLVM D compiler (0.17.6git-79d2284)
> ```

Does that Git has thing work if there is no Git involved? ;-)
To make this work I will have to download a tarball of ltsmaster, with no Git involved to get the hash from.

On Sunday, 19 August 2018 at 12:56:28 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> [...]
> Does that Git has thing work if there is no Git involved? ;-)
> [...]

Ewww, looks like I can't write today...
At the moment, we get
```
LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.8.0):
  based on DMD v2.078.3 and LLVM 5.0.2
  built with LDC - the LLVM D compiler (0.17.5)
```
unconditionally - if I switch to a ltsmaster snapshot, it will likely display 0.17.6 with no direct way of knowing which snapshot was taken.
(I could manually record that as an info file in the package, so it at least is recorded somewhere, but that's not easily accessible at all...)

On Sunday, 19 August 2018 at 10:11:42 UTC, 鲜卑拓跋枫 wrote:
> Many thanks for your effort!
> And hope the subsequent LDC releases with LLVM 7.0 will be mature enough on AArch64 and RISC-V for production environment.

Who is actually running AArch64 or RISC-V in a "production environment?" Maybe a few for AArch64, but pretty much nobody for RISC-V. I tried looking for a RISC-V VPS or dev board recently and found basically nothing, just two boards from SiFive that are too small or too expensive.