Re: Packaging D libraries, cross compiler compatibility

2012-09-17 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-09-17 01:33, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: If we're talking Debian, the only compilers to consider are GDC and LDC -- DMD is non-free by Debian standards. I'm sure the runtimes are different anyway. Although, I don't know how LDC handles the calling convention. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Packaging D libraries, cross compiler compatibility

2012-09-16 Thread Thomas Koch
Hi, I've started a discussion about packaging D libraries and programs for Debian: http://code.google.com/p/d-apt/issues/detail?id=1 From this discussion I learned, that it would make a difference which version of which compiler created a library. Isn't it that it doesn't matter which C

Re: Packaging D libraries, cross compiler compatibility

2012-09-16 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-09-16 09:59, Thomas Koch wrote: Hi, I've started a discussion about packaging D libraries and programs for Debian: http://code.google.com/p/d-apt/issues/detail?id=1 From this discussion I learned, that it would make a difference which version of which compiler created a library. Isn't

Re: Packaging D libraries, cross compiler compatibility

2012-09-16 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 16/09/12 12:25, Jacob Carlborg wrote: The runtimes are slightly different and the calling conventions are sometimes different. For example, GDC uses the C calling convention of the system wheres DMD uses a slightly modified version. If we're talking Debian, the only compilers to consider