On Friday, 1 November 2013 at 15:47:56 UTC, Colin Grogan wrote:
I have a project I may need to write that is pretty performance
intensive, but also needs to be quite customiseable.
We previously had this done with Perl, and the customising came
from adding functions to a file and the main script would call
those functions as required.
Problem is, the Perl program is performing very slowly.
Im thinking of doing this with D, and using string mixins to
add in customised functions at compile time. All well and good
I think.
However, I dont want to have the hassle of telling users to
install a D compiler on their systems.
Ideally, the user should be able to unzip this tool and run it
with rdmd.
Is it possible to ship the D compiler with the code, and not
have to worry about any libs and config files being missing?
I'm specifically thinking about libphobos.a and dmd.conf, can
they just be in the same folder as the D compiler or do they
need to be in /usr/lib and /etc ?
Thanks folks!
dmd.conf can be in the same folder as the dmd executable. All the
rest of the linking etc. is specified in dmd.conf so you just
need to set that up appropriately.
The legal side of things is a different matter. I quote from
src/backendlicense.txt : "The Software is copyrighted and comes
with a single user license, and may not be redistributed. If you
wish to obtain a redistribution license, please contact Digital
Mars."
Walter may be able to grant redistribution rights if you ask him,
IIRC this has happened before?? If not, you could just add a tiny
downloader that grabs the zip file on the clients machine, which
contains everything you need with no installation necessary.
