On Tuesday, 30 October 2012 at 18:53:23 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen
wrote:
On 30-10-2012 19:35, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 October 2012 at 13:55:42 UTC, Alex Rønne
Petersen wrote:
On 30-10-2012 14:46, Isak Andersson wrote:
Based on my experience POSIX compliance is like any
standard.
You end up getting lots of #ifdef for each POSIX system
anyway. The
only people that think POSIX is a standard without any
issues, only
know GNU/Linux.
One thing missing from the list which costs a lot of
effort, is code
generation.
Based on my toy Solaris experience with DMD, I think it is
easier to
use LDC or GDC for bringing D to other platforms.
--
Paulo
Yeah, it seems like POSIX kind of failed in the sense that
you can't
just have a simple posix makefile that works for any posix
compliant os.
I direct you to the POSIX makefiles of DMD, druntime, and
phobos. ;)
Which as far as I am aware only work on POSIX == Linux.
Er... they work on Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris/SunOS.
Ok I was a bit stupid with my remark, sorry about that.
Anyway, I remember when I tried my toy experiment with porting
DMD for Solaris I had to do some patches.
You would be surprised what commercial UNIX systems understand as
POSIX vs what the standard says. Somehow I don't miss my days
porting software among UNIX platforms.
--
Paulo
