On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 01:40, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > > On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 20:12:24 UTC, Manu wrote: > > I know there's been discussion on this before, I just want a > > definitive reference. > > > > It looks like it would be relatively straight forward for DMD > > to be a > > cross-compiler. > > A few version() statements could be runtime if's, and that's > > pretty much it. > > When hacking on parts of DMD, I frequently make hacks that turn > > such > > versions into runtime if's to test multiple targets from the > > one dev > > workflow. > > > > It would be about 100 times more convenient to supply an arg, > > than make hacks all over the code... so, why not? > > Yeah, I don't see a reason why DMD should not be a > cross-compiler. I've been thinking the same thing as well.
Not being a cross-compiler makes iteration and testing unnecessarily hard and slow. We should try and reduce friction to developing DMD. Not being a cross-compiler has definitely stopped me on multiple instances on account of "ah, it's all just too hard!".
