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D.gnu - Relocating GDC

reply =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
If you build GDC in say "/usr" or "/mingw", is it
then possible to relocate the binaries and Phobos ?

I was under the impression that it should be able
to work the location of Phobos out from where the
gdc binary was located, e.g. "../include/d/?.?.?/"
but that does not seem to be the case it seems...


I had hoped for the gdcmac/gdcwin binaries to be
relocatable from the default /usr and C:\MinGW,
but it seems that they can't find e.g. "object.d"
unless you specifically tell it where to search ?

And I was hoping to avoid having to set DFLAGS...

--anders
Jun 15 2006
next sibling parent reply "Andrei Khropov" <andkhropov nospam_mtu-net.ru> writes:
Anders F Björklund wrote:


 
 If you build GDC in say "/usr" or "/mingw", is it
 then possible to relocate the binaries and Phobos ?
 
 I was under the impression that it should be able
 to work the location of Phobos out from where the
 gdc binary was located, e.g. "../include/d/?.?.?/"
 but that does not seem to be the case it seems...
 
 
 I had hoped for the gdcmac/gdcwin binaries to be
 relocatable from the default /usr and C:\MinGW,
 but it seems that they can't find e.g. "object.d"
 unless you specifically tell it where to search ?


Maybe you should look at MinGW source,
because other languages work OK with relocation.




--
Jun 17 2006
parent =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
Andrei Khropov wrote:


If you build GDC in say "/usr" or "/mingw", is it
then possible to relocate the binaries and Phobos ?


 
 Maybe you should look at MinGW source,
 because other languages work OK with relocation.


Actually I would be more likely to just take out
the "relocatable" flag / feature from the packages,
but if anyone else likes to do the work and tell
me what file to patch then I'll be happy to do it...

--anders
Jun 18 2006
prev sibling parent reply David Friedman <dvdfrdmn users.ess-eff.net> writes:
Anders F Björklund wrote:

 
 If you build GDC in say "/usr" or "/mingw", is it
 then possible to relocate the binaries and Phobos ?
 
 I was under the impression that it should be able
 to work the location of Phobos out from where the
 gdc binary was located, e.g. "../include/d/?.?.?/"
 but that does not seem to be the case it seems...
 
 
 I had hoped for the gdcmac/gdcwin binaries to be
 relocatable from the default /usr and C:\MinGW,
 but it seems that they can't find e.g. "object.d"
 unless you specifically tell it where to search ?
 
 And I was hoping to avoid having to set DFLAGS...
 
 --anders


I haven't figured this out completely, but here goes:  To get relocation 
working under msys, the --prefix option must be the actual windows path 
and not the unix-style path.  So, --prefix=c:/msys/1.0 would work, but 
--prefix=/usr would not.

For some reason, the compilers in the mingw distribution can be 
relocated even though they are configured with --prefix=/mingw.  It 
might have something to do with the /mingw entry in /etc/fstab...  I 
have not yet tried building with --prefix=/mingw.  I have only tried 
other directories in the msys tree.

David
Jun 18 2006
parent reply =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
David Friedman wrote:


 I haven't figured this out completely, but here goes:  To get relocation 
 working under msys, the --prefix option must be the actual windows path 
 and not the unix-style path.  So, --prefix=c:/msys/1.0 would work, but 
 --prefix=/usr would not.
 
 For some reason, the compilers in the mingw distribution can be 
 relocated even though they are configured with --prefix=/mingw.  It 
 might have something to do with the /mingw entry in /etc/fstab...  I 
 have not yet tried building with --prefix=/mingw.  I have only tried 
 other directories in the msys tree.


The MinGW compiler does not work for gdc though (because that is what I 
had used and it didn't relocate, even if their gcc/g++ does just fine?),
so I think I will make a test with using --prefix=c:/mingw instead of 
the current --prefix=/mingw (that was taken from the default build.sh)

Thanks for the idea, and let us know if you find their special trick :-)

--anders

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Jun 18 2006
parent reply "Andrei Khropov" <andkhropov nospam_mtu-net.ru> writes:
Anders F Björklund wrote:


 The MinGW compiler does not work for gdc though (because that is what I had
 used and it didn't relocate, even if their gcc/g++ does just fine?)


MinGW gcc/g++ work from nonstandard path (d:\Development\MinGW\) just fine on
my machine (current version - 3.4.2).

--
Jun 19 2006
parent reply =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
Andrei Khropov wrote:


The MinGW compiler does not work for gdc though (because that is what I had
used and it didn't relocate, even if their gcc/g++ does just fine?)


 
 MinGW gcc/g++ work from nonstandard path (d:\Development\MinGW\) just fine on
 my machine (current version - 3.4.2).


Yes it works OK for gcc/g++, but the same version doesn't work for gdc.
(so there must be a change in gcc/g++ includes, that isn't for Phobos?)

Changing prefix to "c:/mingw/" makes all my other scripts choke though.
DESTDIR doesn't take kindly to weird characters like colons in the path.


So the best fix here would be if GDC could understand --prefix=/mingw 
too, and be relocatable even after using that (just like the other GCC)

And we still need to come up with some fix for gdmd, so that you can 
call it like "gdmd" - without needing any "gdmd.pl" suffix nonsense...

--anders
Jun 19 2006
parent =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
I wrote:

  And we still need to come up with some fix for gdmd, so that you can

 call it like "gdmd" - without needing any "gdmd.pl" suffix nonsense...


Phew, that was a whole lot simpler than I ever imagined: "pl2bat gdmd"

--anders
Jun 19 2006