Am Sun, 3 Mar 2013 23:33:27 +1000 schrieb Manu <turkey...@gmail.com>:
> Hi people. > > So I've been AWOL a while, and I'll still be intermittent for some > weeks yet, but I'm trying to work on std.simd and also my dconf talks > in any gaps I can. > However, in order to do a thorough job, I'm missing some tools. I > wonder if anyone can help me out...? > > I need to do some rather strenuous testing of SIMD code gen in D, to > make sure I don't make mistakes and/or lie. > > This requires testing against as many compilers+architectures as I > can. I have barely any internet access to speak of, I don't really > know how, and I also don't run linux, so I can't practically build > myself a suite of toolchains to work with >_< > > Ideally, I would really like all these toolchains: > GDC: x86, x64, ARM, PPC, MIPS, SH4 <- common toolchains > LDC: x86, x64, ARM, PPC <- used by apple > > I wonder if anyone with know-how building GDC or LDC for windows > could help me out by producing as many of these in binary as possible? > > As a side note, I think it would be really valuable to keep a cache > of such windows binaries somewhere on the net anyway, so anyone > working on foreign platforms can get to work and actually focus on > platform support, without wasting all their time learning how to > build these toolchains. > > I think Daniel Green who usually builds the windows GDC toolchains > actually builds them from linux? (which seems weird to me) > > Cheers people! > I could build the gdc toolchains, but I need some more information: What OS should the toolchains target? Linux, windows or "bare-metal"? (Especially the x86 toolchains) Do you need libdruntime/libphobos or is a plain compiler enough? I'm not sure if druntime compiles for SH4, MIPS and PPC.