• James Blachly (8/8) May 02 2019 Apologies, but the website is extremely outdated, and I cannot find
• Eugene Wissner (14/23) May 03 2019 I fear, it is not that straightforward currently, but anyway

James Blachly <james.blachly gmail.com> writes:

Apologies, but the website is extremely outdated, and I cannot find 
reliable, specific instructions on how to install  recent GDC on linux.

Distribution packages are often quite behind. For example, Ubuntu 16LTS 
which we are still on at work max out at GDC 5.

LDC is a tarball. Is there a similarly straightforward way to install 
GDC? If not, is this because we are constrained by system-available GCC 
version?

Thanks all for your help.

Eugene Wissner <belka caraus.de> writes:

On Thursday, 2 May 2019 at 21:08:33 UTC, James Blachly wrote:
 Apologies, but the website is extremely outdated, and I cannot 
 find reliable, specific instructions on how to install  recent 
 GDC on linux.

 Distribution packages are often quite behind. For example, 
 Ubuntu 16LTS which we are still on at work max out at GDC 5.

 LDC is a tarball. Is there a similarly straightforward way to 
 install GDC? If not, is this because we are constrained by 
 system-available GCC version?

 Thanks all for your help.

I fear, it is not that straightforward currently, but anyway 
possible with some excercise.
Slackware 14.2, I'm using, ships GCC5 as well; but I've built GCC 
8 with D and installed it in /opt/gdc.

I've built binaries for GCC 7 with D 2.081.2 for Ubuntu 18.04 
some time ago: 
https://forum.dlang.org/post/ofowhrbeibuonqlkhgxa forum.dlang.org

For building from source you can look at my Slackware build 
scripts (it is plain Shell):
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/development/gcc-d/
https://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.2/development/gcc-d/gcc-d.SlackBuild

I hope I can provide some more binaries this time as soon as I 
finish my work on 2.086 (probably for 2.086.1).