• Vlad Levenfeld (8/8) Sep 13 2014 Pardon my ignorance but I've really got no idea how this works -
• Vlad Levenfeld (1/1) Sep 13 2014 Sorry this should have been on .learn. I'm writing from my phone.
• Dicebot (19/28) Sep 17 2014 This actually may be a question much more appropriate to main D

"Vlad Levenfeld" <vlevenfeld gmail.com> writes:

Pardon my ignorance but I've really got no idea how this works -
I've got a program I've been building in D on Linux and I can
move it between Linux machines but only if I install all of the
dependencies (and modify some of the code). I want to release
something like a precompiled binary or installer package for
Windows, Mac, possibly Android, iPhone, etc. Just something for
testing, for now. Something that can just install and run without
stressing the user out. Where do I start?

"Vlad Levenfeld" <vlevenfeld gmail.com> writes:

Sorry this should have been on .learn. I'm writing from my phone.

"Dicebot" <public dicebot.lv> writes:

On Saturday, 13 September 2014 at 22:37:05 UTC, Vlad Levenfeld 
wrote:
 Pardon my ignorance but I've really got no idea how this works -
 I've got a program I've been building in D on Linux and I can
 move it between Linux machines but only if I install all of the
 dependencies (and modify some of the code). I want to release
 something like a precompiled binary or installer package for
 Windows, Mac, possibly Android, iPhone, etc. Just something for
 testing, for now. Something that can just install and run 
 without
 stressing the user out. Where do I start?

This actually may be a question much more appropriate to main D 
newsgroup than you think :) I am afraid there are no clear 
guidelines.

In my personal opinion you can't and shouldn't do that. It is not 
that different from releasing C or any other native application 
really - pretending portable releases are possible is just asking 
for some trouble, sooner or later. I have yet to see a single 
problem that tries to do that with satisfactory result.

For best compatibility between Linux distributions you should 
read about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base ; as 
for other operating system I doubt there can be anything better 
than sticking to official distribution guidelines for that 
platform.

I think best course of action is to simply make source code as 
cross-platform as possible (and document all assumptions) so that 
any interested party can provide a native package. But of course 
I am biased being one of inafamous linux package maintainers.