• Dune <sorry nomail.com> Dec 13 2006
• Frits van Bommel <fvbommel REMwOVExCAPSs.nl> Dec 13 2006

Hi,
I'm new to D and GDC and have some questions:

Is there a nigtly build of the windows binary and lib?
Is gdc written in D? If not are there plans to do so?


Thanks
Dune

Dune wrote:
 Hi,
 I'm new to D and GDC and have some questions:
 
 Is there a nigtly build of the windows binary and lib?


Not that I know of. I don't follow it much though, so maybe someone else 
can help answer this one.

 Is gdc written in D? If not are there plans to do so?


No, it's C++. It uses the DMD front-end and GCC back-ends.

Note that this is probably a good thing for D, since this should make it 
much easier to port it to platforms that don't already have a working D 
compiler. In fact, it has already been ported to at least one platform 
that didn't yet have a D compiler (Mac OS X for one). I think there were 
others, but can't recall at the moment.

Creating a compiler in D that rivals the current GDC would likely be a 
lot of work, as it would amount to re-implementing/porting the GCC 
back-ends (at least the ones currently used by GDC), as well as keep up 
with Walter for the front-end. *Both* of these are probably pretty big 
jobs all by themselves :).