Re: GDC on Travis-CI

2018-06-02 Thread crimaniak via Digitalmars-d-learn

On Saturday, 2 June 2018 at 19:48:36 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:

@crimaniak: If you really want to build with all compilers, 
there is a workaround for this issue that does not involve you 
supporting ancient D versions, and that is to actually use 
Debian's GDC on Travis. I use this excessively for my own 
projects, mostly though because I need newer system libraries 
and because I explicitly want to build with the packaged 
compilers as well.
You can use a similar approach and limit it to GDC only, I 
created a PR for that: 
https://github.com/crimaniak/json-patch/pull/1
As you can see on 
https://travis-ci.org/crimaniak/json-patch/jobs/387197216 , 
your code builds fine with the latest GDC.

 Wow! It works! Thanks!

So, if you want that workaround, please take it, if not it may 
serve as a reference for others facing the same problem.
 Yes, pull request is approved. This is exactly what I was hoping 
to find. I also recommend this to others who have this problem. 
It takes some time to install required packages so build was much 
longer than dmd and lcd builds but I think it's not a problem for 
most cases.


Thanks to everyone who answered!


Re: GDC on Travis-CI

2018-06-02 Thread Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d-learn

On Saturday, 2 June 2018 at 16:27:38 UTC, Seb wrote:

On Saturday, 2 June 2018 at 16:04:09 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:

On Saturday, 2 June 2018 at 03:15:56 UTC, crimaniak wrote:
I started to work with Travis-CI, building packages using all 
three main compilers, and noticed that I have problems with 
gdc every time and need to tweak code because of many things 
missing. For example: 
https://travis-ci.org/crimaniak/json-patch/jobs/386963340

Why this situation with gdc and how best to deal with it?


The build log seems to indicate it uses gdc 4.8, while the 
current version of GDC is 8.1 which is based on the 2.076 
frontend.


Maybe just updating GDC on Travis will fix this.


Sadly that's not so easy as

1) the GDC download path changed and we are still waiting on 
feedback from Ian on this (since more than, see 
https://github.com/dlang/installer/pull/251)


2) AFAICT there are no public binaries that use anything later 
than 2.068.2 could be used (see 
https://gdcproject.org/downloads)


That's unfortunate. I hope Iain comments on this soon, because it 
means GDC will receive much less testing by other projects. For 
getting up-to-date binaries, in theory those could be extracted 
from GDC's Debian packages, which are usually very up-to-date 
(even Git snapshots are occasionally packaged) - problem there is 
that I am not sure whether they will work standalone and with the 
older GLibc on Travis.


@crimaniak: If you really want to build with all compilers, there 
is a workaround for this issue that does not involve you 
supporting ancient D versions, and that is to actually use 
Debian's GDC on Travis. I use this excessively for my own 
projects, mostly though because I need newer system libraries and 
because I explicitly want to build with the packaged compilers as 
well.
You can use a similar approach and limit it to GDC only, I 
created a PR for that: 
https://github.com/crimaniak/json-patch/pull/1
As you can see on 
https://travis-ci.org/crimaniak/json-patch/jobs/387197216 , your 
code builds fine with the latest GDC.
So, if you want that workaround, please take it, if not it may 
serve as a reference for others facing the same problem.




Re: GDC on Travis-CI

2018-06-02 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-learn

On Saturday, 2 June 2018 at 16:04:09 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:

On Saturday, 2 June 2018 at 03:15:56 UTC, crimaniak wrote:
I started to work with Travis-CI, building packages using all 
three main compilers, and noticed that I have problems with 
gdc every time and need to tweak code because of many things 
missing. For example: 
https://travis-ci.org/crimaniak/json-patch/jobs/386963340

Why this situation with gdc and how best to deal with it?


The build log seems to indicate it uses gdc 4.8, while the 
current version of GDC is 8.1 which is based on the 2.076 
frontend.


Maybe just updating GDC on Travis will fix this.


Sadly that's not so easy as

1) the GDC download path changed and we are still waiting on 
feedback from Ian on this (since more than, see 
https://github.com/dlang/installer/pull/251)


2) AFAICT there are no public binaries that use anything later 
than 2.068.2 could be used (see https://gdcproject.org/downloads)


Re: GDC on Travis-CI

2018-06-02 Thread Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d-learn

On Saturday, 2 June 2018 at 03:15:56 UTC, crimaniak wrote:
I started to work with Travis-CI, building packages using all 
three main compilers, and noticed that I have problems with gdc 
every time and need to tweak code because of many things 
missing. For example: 
https://travis-ci.org/crimaniak/json-patch/jobs/386963340

Why this situation with gdc and how best to deal with it?


The build log seems to indicate it uses gdc 4.8, while the 
current version of GDC is 8.1 which is based on the 2.076 
frontend.


Maybe just updating GDC on Travis will fix this.


Re: GDC on Travis-CI

2018-06-02 Thread Johan Engelen via Digitalmars-d-learn

On Saturday, 2 June 2018 at 10:49:30 UTC, rjframe wrote:


There is documentation for older Phobos versions online, but I 
don't remember the link and haven't found it by searching.


https://docarchives.dlang.io/


Re: GDC on Travis-CI

2018-06-02 Thread rjframe via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 03:15:56 +, crimaniak wrote:

> I started to work with Travis-CI, building packages using all three main
> compilers, and noticed that I have problems with gdc every time and need
> to tweak code because of many things missing.
> For example: https://travis-ci.org/crimaniak/json-patch/jobs/386963340
> Why this situation with gdc and how best to deal with it?

GDC is on the 2.068 frontend, so you can't use any symbols introduced 
since then.

There is documentation for older Phobos versions online, but I don't 
remember the link and haven't found it by searching.


GDC on Travis-CI

2018-06-01 Thread crimaniak via Digitalmars-d-learn
I started to work with Travis-CI, building packages using all 
three main compilers, and noticed that I have problems with gdc 
every time and need to tweak code because of many things missing. 
For example: 
https://travis-ci.org/crimaniak/json-patch/jobs/386963340

Why this situation with gdc and how best to deal with it?