Jason E. Aten wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:03 PM, filgood <filg...@somewhere.net> wrote: > > > Btw, what is the status of the D2 LLVM compiler? > > > > Here are my impressions. I might title this short collection of thoughts, > "LDC2 - one user's early experience." > > With alot of caveats, my experience as a user of D2 LLVM (which has been > only over the last week) has been good. This is very subjective, and not > very scientific, but my two cents are: LDC2 is in impressive shape. But I'm > new to D as well, so I'm not a very good judge of these things. > > And here are the caveats: I personally have written only 8-line toy programs > with it. LDC2, as far as I know, only does linux. But it does do linux64 > (and I assume 32, but I've only tried 64). It doesn't do anything else as > far as I know. I tried OSX and there's a bunch things that need careful > attention before that version will fly. > > There's not very good documentation on building LDC2, and figuring out how > to build involved getting help on the chat group. But they are very > helpful. When I asked Alexey about the gc issues he had mentioned (on a > wiki...maybe, I don't recall exactly), he wrote back and said that those > issues were now fixed. Many of the optimization levels don't function, but > those should be trivial to fix. > > The build instructions are pretty out of date and the makefiles aren't > really configured right, but after mucking with it for a bit, I got it to > build. If you can get it to build, it compiles druntime and phobos. That is > fairly impressive. It showed good (not 100%, but good) conformance when > compared with the dmd2 output on a 100 test subset of the runnable category > of tests from https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd. I don't know > how comprehensive that test suite is, but it reassured me enough to continue > to work with > the compiler.
Can you talk me through the building process? I tried it a week ago but with no success. Can you post the necessary steps on this list or to me in private? > Alexey Prokhin--as the current lead developer--deserves applause, loud > applause, for his work on LDC2. > > Thank you Alexey! This is very nice work. I appreciate his work, too. Thank you very much, Alexey. Jens
