• Bauss (1/1) Jan 05 2015 Is it possible to compile for other OS's on Windows using dmd?
• Gary Willoughby (3/4) Jan 05 2015 This is what's known as cross compiling and is not currently
• Bauss (2/6) Jan 05 2015 Any alternatives?
• Colin (3/11) Jan 05 2015 Fire up a VM of the target machine (easy with any of the *nix
• Joakim (19/27) Jan 05 2015 You might be able to lightly tweak ldc to do it: I was able to

"Bauss" <jj_1337 live.dk> writes:

Is it possible to compile for other OS's on Windows using dmd?

"Gary Willoughby" <dev nomad.so> writes:

On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 11:49:32 UTC, Bauss wrote:
 Is it possible to compile for other OS's on Windows using dmd?

This is what's known as cross compiling and is not currently 
supported by DMD at this time.

"Bauss" <jj_1337 live.dk> writes:

On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 12:54:00 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
 On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 11:49:32 UTC, Bauss wrote:
 Is it possible to compile for other OS's on Windows using dmd?

 This is what's known as cross compiling and is not currently 
 supported by DMD at this time.

Any alternatives?

"Colin" <grogan.colin gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 15:00:05 UTC, Bauss wrote:
 On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 12:54:00 UTC, Gary Willoughby 
 wrote:
 On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 11:49:32 UTC, Bauss wrote:
 Is it possible to compile for other OS's on Windows using dmd?

 This is what's known as cross compiling and is not currently 
 supported by DMD at this time.

 Any alternatives?

Fire up a VM of the target machine (easy with any of the *nix 
systems) and compile on that?

"Joakim" <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:

On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 15:00:05 UTC, Bauss wrote:
 On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 12:54:00 UTC, Gary Willoughby 
 wrote:
 On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 11:49:32 UTC, Bauss wrote:
 Is it possible to compile for other OS's on Windows using dmd?

 This is what's known as cross compiling and is not currently 
 supported by DMD at this time.

 Any alternatives?

You might be able to lightly tweak ldc to do it: I was able to 
cross-compile druntime/phobos, their unit tests, and some small 
sample apps on a linux/x86 host to run on a linux/ARM target.

The problem isn't really the D compiler so much as the other 
needed tools and environment.  Dmd and the other D compilers are 
automatically configured to use your system linker and link 
against the system's C standard library.  Well, optlink or the 
Microsoft linker on Windows don't know how to link for linux or 
OS X!

So you have to set up linkers and C libraries for every other OS 
you want to build for on Windows.  It's possible: the Android NDK 
can be installed on Windows with Cygwin and compile C/C++ code 
for the various Android architectures.  But none of the D 
compilers have gone to all the trouble to provide that 
cross-compiling support out of the box for all the various OSs 
they support.

It's easier to just run each OS in a VM on top of Windows, as 
Colin said.