• Simon Lehmayr (2/2) Oct 13 2008 Is there a possiblity to get a cygwin compatible D compiler binary which...
• Gregor Richards (4/7) Oct 13 2008 ... what? Cygwin doesn't use ELF, so unless you're using something
• Benji Smith (17/31) Oct 13 2008 I think the idea was to produce linux binaries from a compiler on a
• Gregor Richards (6/43) Oct 13 2008 A cross-compiler? That's a totally different issue. You can build a GDC
• Adam D. Ruppe (8/12) Oct 14 2008 I build Windows binaries from Linux by running the Windows version of dm...

Simon Lehmayr <simon.lehmayr gmx.de> writes:

Is there a possiblity to get a cygwin compatible D compiler binary which
creates ELF objects just as the pure Linux version does from DigitalMars?
As far as I know the cygwin-included GDC is ancient, the current GDC is not
really finished (lots of bugs remain) and the windows DMD only produces some
strange OMF object format. I need ELF objects to link with my project using
cygwin on Windows.

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

Simon Lehmayr wrote:
 Is there a possiblity to get a cygwin compatible D compiler binary which
creates ELF objects just as the pure Linux version does from DigitalMars?
 As far as I know the cygwin-included GDC is ancient, the current GDC is not
really finished (lots of bugs remain) and the windows DMD only produces some
strange OMF object format. I need ELF objects to link with my project using
cygwin on Windows.
 

... what? Cygwin doesn't use ELF, so unless you're using something 
really strange like my ELF-on-Windows environment something is wrong here.

  - Gregor Richards

Benji Smith <dlanguage benjismith.net> writes:

Gregor Richards wrote:
 Simon Lehmayr wrote:
 Is there a possiblity to get a cygwin compatible D compiler binary 
 which creates ELF objects just as the pure Linux version does from 
 DigitalMars?
 As far as I know the cygwin-included GDC is ancient, the current GDC 
 is not really finished (lots of bugs remain) and the windows DMD only 
 produces some strange OMF object format. I need ELF objects to link 
 with my project using cygwin on Windows.

 
 ... what? Cygwin doesn't use ELF, so unless you're using something 
 really strange like my ELF-on-Windows environment something is wrong here.
 
  - Gregor Richards

I think the idea was to produce linux binaries from a compiler on a 
windows system.

It'd be very cool (and personally, I see no reason it ought to depend on 
cygwin). A compiler should not be dependent upon its environment to 
produce compatible binaries.

In an ideal world, I'd just tell the compiler to use its linux backend 
rather than its windows backend (and to link with linux libraries, 
located in a directory of my choice). There's no hard and fast reason 
why the reverse couldn't be true as well, compiling windows binaries 
from a linux machine.

(NOTE: I am not actually *suggesting* this, because I realize it'd be a 
gargantuan amount of work. I've just been thinking about this lately, 
because I need to produce multi-platform binaries, and I'd rather do all 
my compilation in one place, even if I still need to run acceptance 
tests on those other platforms.)

--benji

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

Benji Smith wrote:
 Gregor Richards wrote:
 Simon Lehmayr wrote:
 Is there a possiblity to get a cygwin compatible D compiler binary 
 which creates ELF objects just as the pure Linux version does from 
 DigitalMars?
 As far as I know the cygwin-included GDC is ancient, the current GDC 
 is not really finished (lots of bugs remain) and the windows DMD only 
 produces some strange OMF object format. I need ELF objects to link 
 with my project using cygwin on Windows.

 ... what? Cygwin doesn't use ELF, so unless you're using something 
 really strange like my ELF-on-Windows environment something is wrong 
 here.

  - Gregor Richards

 
 I think the idea was to produce linux binaries from a compiler on a 
 windows system.
 
 It'd be very cool (and personally, I see no reason it ought to depend on 
 cygwin). A compiler should not be dependent upon its environment to 
 produce compatible binaries.
 
 In an ideal world, I'd just tell the compiler to use its linux backend 
 rather than its windows backend (and to link with linux libraries, 
 located in a directory of my choice). There's no hard and fast reason 
 why the reverse couldn't be true as well, compiling windows binaries 
 from a linux machine.
 
 (NOTE: I am not actually *suggesting* this, because I realize it'd be a 
 gargantuan amount of work. I've just been thinking about this lately, 
 because I need to produce multi-platform binaries, and I'd rather do all 
 my compilation in one place, even if I still need to run acceptance 
 tests on those other platforms.)
 
 --benji

A cross-compiler? That's a totally different issue. You can build a GDC 
cross-compiler, but having a current GDC compiler is neither a 
prerequisite nor even very helpful. I've made GDC cross-compilers in 
both of these directions, as well as various others (don't ask X_X )

  - Gregor Richards

"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 06:37:10PM -0400, Benji Smith wrote:
 I think the idea was to produce linux binaries from a compiler on a 
 windows system.
 

I build Windows binaries from Linux by running the Windows version of dmd
under Wine on the code. It works pretty well almost out of the box
(some adjustments to sc.ini are all that's needed.)

I don't have any ideas about building Linux bins from Windows though.

 --benji

-- 
Adam D. Ruppe
http://arsdnet.net