Re: Updated LDC snap package with improved Ubuntu 14.04 support
On Sunday, 19 February 2017 at 16:18:48 UTC, visitor wrote: Works for me on ubuntu 16.04 (llvm-3.8), Thanks :-) Not heavily tested, just to let you know for some feedback on your work, again Thanks Great to know that it works for you, thanks for trying it out :-) Note the snap package doesn't use the distro-packaged LLVM; it's based on a fresh build of LLVM 3.9.1. You can verify this by using which ldc2 # just to verify you are using the snap packaged version ldc2 --version # should tell you all about the LDC, LLVM and D frontend versions The latter should read: LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.1.0): based on DMD v2.071.2 and LLVM 3.9.1 built with LDC - the LLVM D compiler (0.17.3) Out of curiosity, have you tried using the link-time optimization feature? (-flto=full)
Re: Updated LDC snap package with improved Ubuntu 14.04 support
On Sunday, 19 February 2017 at 11:24:17 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Revision 4 of the ldc2 snap package is now available in the 'edge' channel of the snap store. Works for me on ubuntu 16.04 (llvm-3.8), Thanks :-) Not heavily tested, just to let you know for some feedback on your work, again Thanks
Updated LDC snap package with improved Ubuntu 14.04 support
Revision 4 of the ldc2 snap package is now available in the
'edge' channel of the snap store. This still provides LDC 1.1.0
with an LLVM 3.9.1 backend, but has been rebuilt in a clean build
using the latest `snapcraft` release, which has improved support
for classic snaps across different distributions.
This package should therefore now work on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as
well as on 16.04 or later.
Link-time optimization (the `-flto={full,thin}` flag) is however
still limited to Ubuntu 16.04 or later: on 14.04 it will fail
with a linker error.
As always, I'd be very happy if people could try this out and let
me know how it works for you.
-- to install --
This package should be possible to install on Ubuntu 16.04 or
later, or Ubuntu 14.04, as well as any other distro making
available a recent version of snapd (2.21 or later):
https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/install
Once snapd is installed (on Ubuntu or Debian, `sudo apt install
snapd`), the ldc2 snap can be installed with:
sudo snap install --classic --edge ldc2
If you already have a version installed, you can upgrade it with:
sudo snap refresh --classic --edge ldc2
Note, if this version breaks something for you, you can downgrade
to revision 3 with:
sudo snap refresh --classic --edge --revision=3 ldc2
