On 24 May 2013 09:44, Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net>wrote:
> On 05/24/2013 01:25 AM, Manu wrote: > > I really hope D on ARM gets some more attention in the near future. The > day it > > can be used on Android will be a very significant breakthrough! > > GDC is close to being fully usable on ARM, no? And as I recall the only > (albeit > major) problem you had with GDC was the delay between bugfixes landing in > the D > frontend and carrying over to GDC. > > So, the solution here might be the work to properly generalize the > frontend so > that it will plug-and-play on top of any of the available backends. > Well the compiler seems fine actually. It generates good ARM code in my experience, ditto for PPC, MIPS, SH4 (those are all I have tested). Druntime needs to be ported to Bionic. People have made a start, but I recall mention of some complications that need some work? iOS needs extern(ObjC), but it's a fairly standard posix underneath, so should be less work on the runtime. Systems like WiiU/Wii/PS3/XBox360, etc all need runtimes, and those will probably not be developed by the D community. It would land on a general gamedev's shoulders to do those, so I would suggest the approach here would be to make a step-buy-step guide to porting druntime. Make the process as simple as possible for individuals wanting to support other 'niche' platforms...
