digitalmars.D - Available D2 implementation on Windows besides DMD?
- "Victor T." <gmane.greatwolf mamber.net> Jun 10 2011
- Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes gmail.com> Jun 10 2011
- "Victor T." <gmane.greatwolf mamber.net> Jun 10 2011
- Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes gmail.com> Jun 10 2011
- Greatwolf <gmane.greatwolf mamber.net> Jun 10 2011
- Robert Clipsham <robert octarineparrot.com> Jun 10 2011
- Robert Clipsham <robert octarineparrot.com> Jun 10 2011
- "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> Jun 10 2011
- Robert Clipsham <robert octarineparrot.com> Jun 11 2011
- Trass3r <un known.com> Jun 10 2011
- Trass3r <un known.com> Jun 10 2011
- Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> Jun 10 2011
- Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> Jun 10 2011
- Andrew Wiley <wiley.andrew.j gmail.com> Jun 10 2011
Hi, I'm looking to try out D2 after reading Andrei's D Programming book. What implementations are available besides DMD for the windows platform? I've looked at both GDC and LLVM-LDC but was unable to get either of them to work at least for version 2 of the language. The precompiled binaries on the gdc page seems to be for gdc version 1 of the language. LDC doesn't have any precompiled binaries at all for windows and my attempts to build it has so far failed. Any recommendations and advice on this is appreciated. I'm mainly interested in trying all these alternate implementations to see how well they can optimize code.
Jun 10 2011
Am 10.06.2011 10:46, schrieb Victor T.:Hi, I'm looking to try out D2 after reading Andrei's D Programming book. What implementations are available besides DMD for the windows platform? I've looked at both GDC and LLVM-LDC but was unable to get either of them to work at least for version 2 of the language. The precompiled binaries on the gdc page seems to be for gdc version 1 of the language. LDC doesn't have any precompiled binaries at all for windows and my attempts to build it has so far failed. Any recommendations and advice on this is appreciated. I'm mainly interested in trying all these alternate implementations to see how well they can optimize code.
Are you aware that the new official GDC page is https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/Home ? The download page contains snapshots for D2 on windows (and maybe D1 as well). Cheers, - Daniel
Jun 10 2011
Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes gmail.com> wrote in news:issm47$10ia$4 digitalmars.com:Are you aware that the new official GDC page is https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/Home ? The download page contains snapshots for D2 on windows (and maybe D1 as well). Cheers, - Daniel
Yes that was the page I was talking about. Specifically, the precompiled binaries here: https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads It appears to work with version 1 of the D language spec. For example, when I compile the following under gdc I get an error that writeln is undefined: import std.stdio; void main() { writeln("quicktest\n"); } However, changing it to writefln compiles and runs fine. Additionally, I also tried passing in -fversion=2 to gdc to which it complains it's invalid. So it would appear the precompiled binaries made available do not support D2.
Jun 10 2011
Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes gmail.com> Am 10.06.2011 11:22, schrieb Victor T.:Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes gmail.com> wrote in news:issm47$10ia$4 digitalmars.com:Are you aware that the new official GDC page is https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/Home ? The download page contains snapshots for D2 on windows (and maybe D1 as well). Cheers, - Daniel
Yes that was the page I was talking about. Specifically, the precompiled binaries here: https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads It appears to work with version 1 of the D language spec. For example, when I compile the following under gdc I get an error that writeln is undefined: import std.stdio; void main() { writeln("quicktest\n"); } However, changing it to writefln compiles and runs fine. Additionally, I also tried passing in -fversion=2 to gdc to which it complains it's invalid. So it would appear the precompiled binaries made available do not support D2.
Strange. I haven't got a windows box, but in the archive there's also a libphobos2 and include/ also contains a d2 dir, so I thought D2 was supported.
Jun 10 2011
Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> wrote in news:mailman.765.1307719908.14074.digitalmars-d puremagic.com:gdc -v2 main.d
Thank you! That option did the trick. Somehow I didn't see that in the user docs in the gdc site https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/UserDocumentation
Jun 10 2011
On 10/06/2011 09:46, Victor T. wrote:Hi, I'm looking to try out D2 after reading Andrei's D Programming book. What implementations are available besides DMD for the windows platform? I've looked at both GDC and LLVM-LDC but was unable to get either of them to work at least for version 2 of the language. The precompiled binaries on the gdc page seems to be for gdc version 1 of the language. LDC doesn't have any precompiled binaries at all for windows and my attempts to build it has so far failed. Any recommendations and advice on this is appreciated. I'm mainly interested in trying all these alternate implementations to see how well they can optimize code.
Your best option for D on Windows is dmd right now. It is implicitly more up to date than GDC/LDC (they both depend on the dmd front end, so there will inevitably be some amount of lag). GDC has D2 support and Windows support, I don't believe it offers pre-compiled binaries for D2 on Windows yet though. It should do in the near future, as gdc is actively developed, and people have been taking an interest in Windows support recently. LDC has alpha, maybe beta support for D2, and is behind dmd releases. It uses the LLVM backend, which doesn't support exceptions on Windows currently, so it's not much use. Note that the next release of LLVM will have support for exceptions on 64-bit Windows, no work has been done for 32 bit though, my guess is that will follow. As for how well they optimize code, dmd has a state of the art optimizer from the 90s, or there abouts - the code it generates is pretty speedy, it has some obvious short comings though (I believe floating point and inlining are lacking, as well as some more modern optimizations). GDC optimizes code almost as well as GCC, there are a few notable cases where it doesn't though - it's a matter of time before these are fixed though, by which time the code generated will be roughly the same speed as the equivalent C/C++. LDC optimizes code roughly as well as clang, and has some D specific optimizations too (something which GDC is lacking, and DMD too). As far as I'm aware these are nothing major though. -- Robert http://octarineparrot.com/
Jun 10 2011
On 10/06/2011 15:34, Trass3r wrote:Am 10.06.2011, 14:01 Uhr, schrieb Robert Clipsham <robert octarineparrot.com>:Note that the next release of LLVM will have support for exceptions on 64-bit Windows, no work has been done for 32 bit though, my guess is that will follow.
What is your source? I could only find this changeset which adds SEH parsing and AST support to Clang: https://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&sortby=date&revision=130366
There are a lot of other commits for it, and some mailing list entries, you can find a selection here: Commits: http://goo.gl/efoVp http://goo.gl/iXGlT http://goo.gl/qe9u1 Mailing list entries: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-June/040442.html -- Robert http://octarineparrot.com/
Jun 10 2011
"Robert Clipsham" <robert octarineparrot.com> wrote in message news:ist1af$tbj$1 digitalmars.com...As for how well they optimize code, dmd has a state of the art optimizer from the 90s, or there abouts - the code it generates is pretty speedy, it has some obvious short comings though (I believe floating point and inlining are lacking, as well as some more modern optimizations).
I'm pretty sure DMD does inlining. After all, it *does* have an "-inline" commandlne flag. My understanding is that it just doesn't always inline everything it could.
Jun 10 2011
On 10/06/2011 21:18, Jonathan M Davis wrote:On 2011-06-10 13:15, Nick Sabalausky wrote:"Robert Clipsham"<robert octarineparrot.com> wrote in message news:ist1af$tbj$1 digitalmars.com...As for how well they optimize code, dmd has a state of the art optimizer from the 90s, or there abouts - the code it generates is pretty speedy, it has some obvious short comings though (I believe floating point and inlining are lacking, as well as some more modern optimizations).
I'm pretty sure DMD does inlining. After all, it *does* have an "-inline" commandlne flag. My understanding is that it just doesn't always inline everything it could.
dmd _definitely_ has inlining. It could use some improvement (e.g. functions with lazy parameters can't currently be inlined), but it _does_ have inlining. And dmd's optimizations aren't bad. It's just that they could be better. I expect that we'll see them improve further once the language has stablized more. As much as faster code would be nice, correct code is much more important. And there are still plenty of bugs to iron out in the compiler (though it's definitely improving). - Jonathan M Davis
Indeed, by lacking I didn't mean lacking the feature, I meant lacking in functionality/ability, there are a lot of things that it could inline but doesn't currently. -- Robert http://octarineparrot.com/
Jun 11 2011
Am 10.06.2011, 14:01 Uhr, schrieb Robert Clipsham <robert octarineparrot.com>:LDC has alpha, maybe beta support for D2, and is behind dmd releases. It uses the LLVM backend, which doesn't support exceptions on Windows currently, so it's not much use. Note that the next release of LLVM will have support for exceptions on 64-bit Windows, no work has been done for 32 bit though, my guess is that will follow.
Woot! That's great news, Win64 support is all I need :)
Jun 10 2011
Am 10.06.2011, 14:01 Uhr, schrieb Robert Clipsham <robert octarineparrot.com>:Note that the next release of LLVM will have support for exceptions on 64-bit Windows, no work has been done for 32 bit though, my guess is that will follow.
What is your source? I could only find this changeset which adds SEH parsing and AST support to Clang: https://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&sortby=date&revision=130366
Jun 10 2011
On 6/10/11, Victor T. <gmane.greatwolf mamber.net> wrote:void main() { writeln("quicktest\n"); } However, changing it to writefln compiles and runs fine. Additionally, I also tried passing in -fversion=2 to gdc to which it complains it's invalid.
gdc -v2 main.d
Jun 10 2011
On 2011-06-10 13:15, Nick Sabalausky wrote:"Robert Clipsham" <robert octarineparrot.com> wrote in message news:ist1af$tbj$1 digitalmars.com...As for how well they optimize code, dmd has a state of the art optimizer from the 90s, or there abouts - the code it generates is pretty speedy, it has some obvious short comings though (I believe floating point and inlining are lacking, as well as some more modern optimizations).
I'm pretty sure DMD does inlining. After all, it *does* have an "-inline" commandlne flag. My understanding is that it just doesn't always inline everything it could.
dmd _definitely_ has inlining. It could use some improvement (e.g. functions with lazy parameters can't currently be inlined), but it _does_ have inlining. And dmd's optimizations aren't bad. It's just that they could be better. I expect that we'll see them improve further once the language has stablized more. As much as faster code would be nice, correct code is much more important. And there are still plenty of bugs to iron out in the compiler (though it's definitely improving). - Jonathan M Davis
Jun 10 2011
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Thank you! That option did the trick. Somehow I didn't see that in the user docs in the gdc site https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/UserDocumentation
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Jun 10 2011