On Wednesday, 23 May 2018 at 03:43:16 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
On Tuesday, 22 May 2018 at 16:27:05 UTC, Eduard Staniloiu wrote:
Let the brainstorming begin!
An LDC or GDC cross-compiler generator for the Raspberry Pi.
There are already some instructions out there (e.g.
http://d-land.sepany.de/einstieg-in-die-raspberry-pi-entwicklung-mit-ldc.html), but what we really need are shell scripts for Linux and Windows that we can download and run, and out pops a read-to-use compiler that can generate binaries on either Windows or Linux for the Raspberry Pi.
See my GDC cross-compiler generator at
https://github.com/JinShil/arm-none-eabi-gdc
I do a lot of support for scientists, engineers, and
entrepreneurs of other non-software-related disciplines. The
all need to write code and all want to create embedded systems
for their research or their product. I believe many of them
would enjoy D (due to their current knowledge of C) for their
work if there wasn't such a high barrier to entry just to get
the development tooling set up.
Clarification: It's not just the cross-compiler that we need.
We need the whole toolchain including druntime, phobos, and a
linker that can generated both dynamic and static-liked libraries
from a host PC. Including other utilities from binutils, LLVM,
and even a debugger for remote-debugging from the host
development PC would be ideal.
Mike
