On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 at 18:52:55 UTC, Assaf Gordon
wrote:
It might be "generally available" when you assume you're
dealing with "recent" "desktop" versions of linux.
I've had good luck with them on my servers too but I haven't used
many of the distros.
But I have had the same libc
On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 at 17:34:45 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
Anyway, let's try the -static switch we can use to do
statically linked libc on some programs.
$ dmd hellod.d -c
$ gcc hellod.o -o hellod -m32
-L/home/me/d/dmd2/linux/bin32/../lib32 -Xlinker
--export-dynamic -l:libphobos2.a
On 02/26/2014 12:34 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 at 17:08:38 UTC, Assaf Gordon wrote:
In my first message in this thread, I wrote (item #3), that unless I'm missing
something, there is no way to build a statically linked binary with D on Linux.
They really aren't fa
On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 at 17:08:38 UTC, Assaf Gordon
wrote:
In my first message in this thread, I wrote (item #3), that
unless I'm missing something, there is no way to build a
statically linked binary with D on Linux.
They really aren't far from it out of the box:
$ dmd hellod.d
$ ld
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 17:04:11 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
If by "works for the end user" you mean that you go to a
(different for every app) website
I always thought that was the sane way to do it, different
website for every app, though I loathe and despise chasing down
library depend
On 02/25/2014 05:41 PM, Dicebot wrote:
I see, your requirements do not match use case of a typical desktop
application.
This is the root cause of our different POVs - I should have explained it more
clearly.
My users are people who have access to Linux machines which they do not control.
I c
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 16:04:56 UTC, Assaf Gordon wrote:
But I think "harming the ecosystem" is a bit of a hyperbole -
in an ideal world where Linux Distros contain every piece of
software (and up to date version), there is indeed very little
need to install from source.
Apologise fo
On 2014-02-25 16:21:24 +, Adam D. Ruppe said:
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 16:03:46 UTC, Artem Tarasov wrote:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l:libphobos2.a
Weird. That might just be a config problem.
The dmd.conf file has the wrong options set for the path. I ran into
this problem on Ma
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 16:17:13 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 16:04:56 UTC, Assaf Gordon
wrote:
Not sure what the "windows attitude" is, since I haven't
developed software for windows in 12 years...
The Windows attitude is expecting things to actually work
On 02/25/2014 11:17 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 16:04:56 UTC, Assaf Gordon wrote:
Not sure what the "windows attitude" is, since I haven't developed software for
windows in 12 years...
The Windows attitude is expecting things to actually work for the end user. It
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 16:03:46 UTC, Artem Tarasov wrote:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l:libphobos2.a
Weird. That might just be a config problem.
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 16:04:56 UTC, Assaf Gordon wrote:
Not sure what the "windows attitude" is, since I haven't
developed software for windows in 12 years...
The Windows attitude is expecting things to actually work for the
end user. It rarely actually works that way on linux.
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 15:06:14 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 14:51:48 UTC, Assaf Gordon
wrote:
My target audience is not D developers - it is unix casual
users (not even developers).
I want to make it the easiest for them to use my program.
If it's requires more
On 02/25/2014 10:06 AM, Dicebot wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 14:51:48 UTC, Assaf Gordon wrote:
My target audience is not D developers - it is unix casual users
(not even developers). I want to make it the easiest for them to
use my program. If it's requires more than the standard "conf
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>
> OR you download and run the binary zip. The instructions aren't very good,
> but this is really easy.
>
Yes, that works great on my Mint laptop and, I guess, the majority of
modern distros.
But let's try your advice on CentOS 5 (and please
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 15:31:19 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 15:24:19 UTC, Francesco
Cattoglio wrote:
since gdc --version output is 4.8.1, what version would it be?
like 2.060 or more like 2.052?
Hm, ones I see in package list are for 4.6 - are you using some
s
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 15:24:19 UTC, Francesco Cattoglio
wrote:
since gdc --version output is 4.8.1, what version would it be?
like 2.060 or more like 2.052?
Hm, ones I see in package list are for 4.6 - are you using some
sort of testing repo? 4.8.* can possibly be pretty new, you can
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 15:18:06 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 15:12:08 UTC, Francesco
Cattoglio wrote:
On my Ubuntu laptop (standard repos as far as I remember) I
have to "apt-get install gdc" to install it. I don't
understand what you meant with "easy way to inst
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 15:12:08 UTC, Francesco Cattoglio
wrote:
On my Ubuntu laptop (standard repos as far as I remember) I
have to "apt-get install gdc" to install it. I don't understand
what you meant with "easy way to install". Are you talking
about getting it from sources or what?
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 14:51:48 UTC, Assaf Gordon wrote:
Also, as long as DMD is not free, providing easy way to install
LDC/GDC is highly desired.
On my Ubuntu laptop (standard repos as far as I remember) I have
to "apt-get install gdc" to install it. I don't understand what
you mea
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 14:51:48 UTC, Assaf Gordon wrote:
Also, as long as DMD is not free, providing easy way to install
LDC/GDC is highly desired.
btw, fresh LDC has recently made it to Debian sid :
https://packages.debian.org/sid/ldc , thanks to Konstantinos
Margaritis
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 14:51:48 UTC, Assaf Gordon wrote:
My target audience is not D developers - it is unix casual
users (not even developers).
I want to make it the easiest for them to use my program.
If it's requires more than the standard "configure && make &&
make install" (or the
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 14:51:48 UTC, Assaf Gordon wrote:
Either you download and install the package (deb/rpm) which is
easy but requires root,
or you download and compile the sources from the source zip -
OR you download and run the binary zip. The instructions aren't
very good, but
On 2/25/2014 11:52 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
On 02/25/2014 12:09 AM, Artem Tarasov wrote:
On 02/24/2014 09:09 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:> On Tuesday, 25 February
2014 at 01:21:03 UTC, Assaf Gordon wrote:
dmd does not require root. The install instructions about copying
stuff into /etc and such a
On 02/25/2014 12:09 AM, Artem Tarasov wrote:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Shammah Chancellor
mailto:anonym...@coward.com>> wrote:
Have you looked at having dub be your autotool?
The complaint is about difficulties with installation of a compiler
and rdmd, and you suggest to bring in yet ano
For building dub and/or rdmd are de-facto standard for any D
developers. You should just start from source tarball and proceed
from there to finding maintainers in specific distributives,
possibly being the one for distro or two. Then conform packaging
rules there.
Single Linux-wide binary di
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 01:21:03 UTC, Assaf Gordon wrote:
I couldn't find a working autotools template (only few old
discussions),
and so far it seems the best way is writing my own makefile
(which I have).
https://github.com/bioinfornatics/MakefileForD
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 01:21:03 UTC, Assaf Gordon wrote:
Hello,
I working on a small program, which I'd like to make publicly
available and easy to distribute,install and use.
If you want to do distribution to developers, dub[1] is the way
to go.
If you want to distribute to deskt
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Shammah Chancellor wrote:
> Have you looked at having dub be your autotool?
>
The complaint is about difficulties with installation of a compiler and
rdmd, and you suggest to bring in yet another dependency?
My experience is the same as described, I keep a VM on
On 2014-02-25 00:50:55 +, Assaf Gordon said:
Hello,
I working on a small program, which I'd like to make publicly available
and easy to distribute,install and use.
I'm trying to figure out the best way to distribute it.
Writing D code is a lot of fun, but it looks like preparing and
pac
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 01:21:03 UTC, Assaf Gordon wrote:
dmd: fine, as long as the downloadable binary version works. I
tested only on multiple debians and ubuntus. But it's not free,
and it requires root privileges.
dmd does not require root. The install instructions about copying
s
You can use hack in Makefile to find out whether the current
platform is Windows or not. Check for SystemRoot environment
variable in this way:
ifdef SystemRoot
SYSTEM=Windows
else ifdef SYSTEMROOT
SYSTEM=Windows
else
SYSTEM=Other
endif
In non-Windows case use Unix un
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 01:21:03 UTC, Assaf Gordon wrote:
1.
Packaging for source-based distribution (ie a "tarball"):
I couldn't find a working autotools template (only few old
discussions),
and so far it seems the best way is writing my own makefile
(which I have).
My concern is tha
Hello,
I working on a small program, which I'd like to make publicly available and
easy to distribute,install and use.
I'm trying to figure out the best way to distribute it.
Writing D code is a lot of fun, but it looks like preparing and packaging it is
not so much...
So far, I'm stuck at:
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