On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 15:00:05 UTC, Bauss wrote:
On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 12:54:00 UTC, Gary Willoughby
wrote:
On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 11:49:32 UTC, Bauss wrote:
Is it possible to compile for other OS's on Windows using dmd?
This is what's known as cross compiling and is not currently
supported by DMD at this time.
Any alternatives?
You might be able to lightly tweak ldc to do it: I was able to
cross-compile druntime/phobos, their unit tests, and some small
sample apps on a linux/x86 host to run on a linux/ARM target.
The problem isn't really the D compiler so much as the other
needed tools and environment. Dmd and the other D compilers are
automatically configured to use your system linker and link
against the system's C standard library. Well, optlink or the
Microsoft linker on Windows don't know how to link for linux or
OS X!
So you have to set up linkers and C libraries for every other OS
you want to build for on Windows. It's possible: the Android NDK
can be installed on Windows with Cygwin and compile C/C++ code
for the various Android architectures. But none of the D
compilers have gone to all the trouble to provide that
cross-compiling support out of the box for all the various OSs
they support.
It's easier to just run each OS in a VM on top of Windows, as
Colin said.
