On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Joakim via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Monday, 15 January 2018 at 13:25:26 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote: > >> So why not to use cross compilation? >> > > As I said before, you could do that for the initial port, say > cross-compiling a build of ldc master for DragonFly by using ldc master on > linux. However, from then on, you'd either be stuck requiring all your > DragonFly users to do the same or checking that cross-compiled DragonFly > binary into a binary package repository somewhere. I don't think any OS > does this, as usually the binary packages are all built from source. > And this is exactly what many distributions do, so there is nothing wrong about it. There is no big difference between C++ compiler or D compiler, you still need to used some existing binary to build it from source.
