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digitalmars.D.announce - LDC 1.5.0

reply kinke <kinke gmx.net> writes:
Hi everyone,

on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to finally officially 
announce LDC 1.5. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:

* Based on D 2.075.1.
* Polished LLVM 5.0 support (now also used for the prebuilt 
release packages).
* Prebuilt ARM-Linux package available again.
* New command-line option `-linker` and ~25 new advanced ones for 
codegen fine-tuning.
* Bugfixes, as always.

Full release log and downloads: 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.5.0

Thanks to all contributors!

[LDC master is at v2.076.1, so LDC 1.6 won't take long.]
Nov 03 2017
next sibling parent reply Nicholas Wilson <iamthewilsonator hotmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 17:17:04 UTC, kinke wrote:

 Hi everyone,

 on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to finally officially 
 announce LDC 1.5. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:

 * Based on D 2.075.1.
 * Polished LLVM 5.0 support (now also used for the prebuilt 
 release packages).
 * Prebuilt ARM-Linux package available again.
 * New command-line option `-linker` and ~25 new advanced ones 
 for codegen fine-tuning.
 * Bugfixes, as always.

 Full release log and downloads: 
 https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.5.0

 Thanks to all contributors!

 [LDC master is at v2.076.1, so LDC 1.6 won't take long.]


Great!

Does `-link-internally` mean that you don't require command line 
tool/dev installation for OS X and Windows? That would be awesome 
for getting workshops for non-programmers (the biologists at my 
Uni) to work.
Nov 03 2017
parent reply David Nadlinger <code klickverbot.at> writes:
On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 23:50:33 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:

 Does `-link-internally` mean that you don't require command 
 line tool/dev installation for OS X and Windows? That would be 
 awesome for getting workshops for non-programmers (the 
 biologists at my Uni) to work.


You still need the system libraries to link against, 
unfortunately.

  — David
Nov 03 2017
parent kinke <noone nowhere.com> writes:
On Saturday, 4 November 2017 at 00:14:59 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:

 On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 23:50:33 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
 wrote:

 Does `-link-internally` mean that you don't require command 
 line tool/dev installation for OS X and Windows? That would be 
 awesome for getting workshops for non-programmers (the 
 biologists at my Uni) to work.


 You still need the system libraries to link against, 
 unfortunately.


And `-link-internally` is currently restricted to MSVC targets. 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/2203 enables ELF and 
Mach-O output too, but for those targets you'll most likely need 
a lot of extra linker flags.
Nov 03 2017
prev sibling next sibling parent reply codephantom <me noyb.com> writes:
On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 17:17:04 UTC, kinke wrote:

 Hi everyone,

 on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to finally officially 
 announce LDC 1.5. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:


Great stuff.

No binary release for FreeBSD though??

:-(
Nov 03 2017
parent reply Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:
On Saturday, 4 November 2017 at 02:43:35 UTC, codephantom wrote:

 On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 17:17:04 UTC, kinke wrote:

 Hi everyone,

 on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to finally officially 
 announce LDC 1.5. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:


 Great stuff.

 No binary release for FreeBSD though??

 :-(


There were some in the recent past, last done for the 1.2 release 
and 1.3 beta1:

https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases

Unfortunately, almost nobody was downloading them:

http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=ldc-developers&repository=ldc

Maybe FreeBSD users prefer using the package from ports, though 
it hasn't kept up:

https://www.freshports.org/lang/ldc/

It is fairly easy to compile ldc yourself:

https://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_from_source
Nov 04 2017
parent reply codephantom <me noyb.com> writes:
On Saturday, 4 November 2017 at 08:40:19 UTC, Joakim wrote:

 It is fairly easy to compile ldc yourself:

 https://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_from_source


Have you tried those instructions on 'FreeBSD'?

Have you ever had to deal with pkg conflicts in FreeBSD?

I have ;-(
Nov 04 2017
parent Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:
On Saturday, 4 November 2017 at 08:44:12 UTC, codephantom wrote:

 On Saturday, 4 November 2017 at 08:40:19 UTC, Joakim wrote:

 It is fairly easy to compile ldc yourself:

 https://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_from_source


 Have you tried those instructions on 'FreeBSD'?


Not those instructions maybe, but I wrote the first ports script 
for FreeBSD back in 2010, so I have built ldc there:

https://www.freshports.org/lang/ldc-devel


 Have you ever had to deal with pkg conflicts in FreeBSD?

 I have ;-(


Can't say that ever really hit me, not sure how it's relevant to 
building ldc either.
Nov 04 2017
prev sibling next sibling parent Jon Degenhardt <jond noreply.com> writes:
On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 17:17:04 UTC, kinke wrote:

 Hi everyone,

 on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to finally officially 
 announce LDC 1.5. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:

 * Based on D 2.075.1.
 * Polished LLVM 5.0 support (now also used for the prebuilt 
 release packages).
 * Prebuilt ARM-Linux package available again.
 * New command-line option `-linker` and ~25 new advanced ones 
 for codegen fine-tuning.
 * Bugfixes, as always.

 Full release log and downloads: 
 https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.5.0

 Thanks to all contributors!

 [LDC master is at v2.076.1, so LDC 1.6 won't take long.]


Great work by the LDC team! Thanks to all the LTO work in 1.4 and 
1.5, the Travis-CI builds of the eBay TSV utilities are LTO 
enabled for Phobos & Druntime as well as the application code. 
This is for both Linux and OS X builds. Couldn't do that before 
the LDC 1.5 release.

The OS X executables are materially faster with the end-to-end 
LTO support. I haven't benchmarked the Linux versions yet. It 
would be very interesting to have get benchmark numbers from 
other apps, especially those making material use of phobos.
Nov 05 2017
prev sibling parent Andrea Fontana <nospam example.com> writes:
On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 17:17:04 UTC, kinke wrote:

 Hi everyone,

 on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to finally officially 
 announce LDC 1.5. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:

 * Based on D 2.075.1.
 * Polished LLVM 5.0 support (now also used for the prebuilt 
 release packages).
 * Prebuilt ARM-Linux package available again.
 * New command-line option `-linker` and ~25 new advanced ones 
 for codegen fine-tuning.
 * Bugfixes, as always.

 Full release log and downloads: 
 https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.5.0

 Thanks to all contributors!

 [LDC master is at v2.076.1, so LDC 1.6 won't take long.]


Good news. And thank you all for arm release! :)
Nov 07 2017