• "Ben Hinkle" <bhinkle4 juno.com> Nov 12 2003
• Jan Knepper <jan smartsoft.us> Nov 12 2003
• "Ben Hinkle" <bhinkle4 juno.com> Nov 14 2003
• Ilya Minkov <minkov cs.tum.edu> Nov 14 2003

Can someone summarize what happened to the previous attempts to get a D
front-end?
I read some of the post in this newsgroup and it seemed like the D frontend
was successfully compiled by gcc.
I just tried adding a .cpp file to the sample front-end "treelang" that
comes with GCC and it looks like that will work as long as you compile it
with an existing g++ and not xgcc (the compiler from the previous bootstrap
stage).
How far had people gotten with the interface between gcc backend and D
front-end?

-Ben

Ben Hinkle wrote:
 Can someone summarize what happened to the previous attempts to get a D
 front-end?
 I read some of the post in this newsgroup and it seemed like the D frontend
 was successfully compiled by gcc.


Correct, and it should be available for download   www.opend.org
However, this frontend is and old one.

 I just tried adding a .cpp file to the sample front-end "treelang" that
 comes with GCC and it looks like that will work as long as you compile it
 with an existing g++ and not xgcc (the compiler from the previous bootstrap
 stage).
 How far had people gotten with the interface between gcc backend and D
 front-end?


Some, mostly study...

Jan

-- 
ManiaC++
Jan Knepper

Does this use gcc's "main" or D's "main"?
I don't see the gcc Make-lang.in, config-lang.in, etc so I'm guessing it
uses D's main.
-Ben

"Jan Knepper" <jan smartsoft.us> wrote in message
news:bou9jv$pbm$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Ben Hinkle wrote:
 Can someone summarize what happened to the previous attempts to get a D
 front-end?
 I read some of the post in this newsgroup and it seemed like the D




 was successfully compiled by gcc.


 Correct, and it should be available for download   www.opend.org
 However, this frontend is and old one.

 I just tried adding a .cpp file to the sample front-end "treelang" that
 comes with GCC and it looks like that will work as long as you compile




 with an existing g++ and not xgcc (the compiler from the previous




 stage).
 How far had people gotten with the interface between gcc backend and D
 front-end?


 Some, mostly study...

 Jan

 -- 
 ManiaC++
 Jan Knepper

Ben Hinkle wrote:
 Does this use gcc's "main" or D's "main"?


It doesn't use anything from GCC.

It was simply made sure that you can compile the front-end using the GCC 
compiler.

 I don't see the gcc Make-lang.in, config-lang.in, etc so I'm guessing it
 uses D's main.


Whew, this stuff makes me sick. :)

-eye