• Dan Dennedy (9/9) Feb 21 2008 Although a D newb, I'm having a go at building dwt-linux with gdc. Befor...
• Dan Dennedy (10/16) Feb 21 2008 I was able to proceed to completion by moving dwt/custom/TableTreeEditor...
• John Reimer (7/27) Feb 21 2008 That's good news! I'm interested in seeing gdc support for dwt. :)

Dan Dennedy <dan dennedy.org> writes:

Although a D newb, I'm having a go at building dwt-linux with gdc. Before
getting it to work successfully with dmd, I had a gdc-based setup, and I
tried 'dsss build' with /etc/rebuild/default => gdc-posix-tango. It was
getting stuck and pegging the CPU for a _long_ time, so I added the verbose
option to the gdmd command flags. It gets stuck at 'code TableTreeEditor'
after successfully completing semantic1-3 stages.

Since I'm a newb but not incompetent and wanting to contribute somehow, I'm
hoping for someone to offer hints where to turn next in troubleshooting
this.

Dan Dennedy <dan dennedy.org> writes:

Dan Dennedy wrote:
 Although a D newb, I'm having a go at building dwt-linux with gdc. Before
 getting it to work successfully with dmd, I had a gdc-based setup, and I
 tried 'dsss build' with /etc/rebuild/default => gdc-posix-tango. It was
 getting stuck and pegging the CPU for a _long_ time, so I added the
 verbose option to the gdmd command flags. It gets stuck at 'code
 TableTreeEditor' after successfully completing semantic1-3 stages.

I was able to proceed to completion by moving dwt/custom/TableTreeEditor.d
and TreeEditor.d out of the way. I could then build all the dwt-samples and
run many of them.

Success: simple, HelloWorld*, Snippet258, Snippet41, torhu_synctest,
DrawingBoard

Segfault: ControlExample, CustomControlExample, Snippet163, Snippet189,
AddressBook (starts, but any menu item crashes)
 
That's the status in case you didn't know. It kinda works with gdc.

John Reimer <terminal.node gmail.com> writes:

Dan Dennedy wrote:
 Dan Dennedy wrote:
 Although a D newb, I'm having a go at building dwt-linux with gdc. Before
 getting it to work successfully with dmd, I had a gdc-based setup, and I
 tried 'dsss build' with /etc/rebuild/default => gdc-posix-tango. It was
 getting stuck and pegging the CPU for a _long_ time, so I added the
 verbose option to the gdmd command flags. It gets stuck at 'code
 TableTreeEditor' after successfully completing semantic1-3 stages.

 
 I was able to proceed to completion by moving dwt/custom/TableTreeEditor.d
 and TreeEditor.d out of the way. I could then build all the dwt-samples and
 run many of them.
 
 Success: simple, HelloWorld*, Snippet258, Snippet41, torhu_synctest,
 DrawingBoard
 
 Segfault: ControlExample, CustomControlExample, Snippet163, Snippet189,
 AddressBook (starts, but any menu item crashes)
  
 That's the status in case you didn't know. It kinda works with gdc.
 


That's good news!  I'm interested in seeing gdc support for dwt. :) 
Unfortunately gdc lags quite severely behind the dmd releases... but gdc 
support will be an important part of any other cross-platform ports of 
DWT (until other technologies mature, like perhaps dil and llvmdc).

Thanks for trying this out. :)

-JJR