• akcom (7/7) Mar 20 2006 Can we (or possibly just me, I don't see many D fans running linux/ppc)
• Walter Bright (5/10) Mar 23 2006 I'm afraid, unless someone wants to write a ppc code generator, or is
• James Dunne (8/23) Mar 25 2006 One option is to leverage existing code generators, such as LLVM

akcom <CppCoder gmail.com> writes:

Can we (or possibly just me, I don't see many D fans running linux/ppc) 
expect to see dmd compiled for linux/ppc, or just the powerpc 
architecture in general any time soon?  While I appreciate the effort 
going on with gdc, I'd like to have a perpetually up-to-date version of 
D available.  Having just tossed my windows box, I'm simply dying without D.

Regards,
Alex

"Walter Bright" <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

"akcom" <CppCoder gmail.com> wrote in message 
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 Can we (or possibly just me, I don't see many D fans running linux/ppc) 
 expect to see dmd compiled for linux/ppc, or just the powerpc architecture 
 in general any time soon?  While I appreciate the effort going on with 
 gdc, I'd like to have a perpetually up-to-date version of D available. 
 Having just tossed my windows box, I'm simply dying without D.

I'm afraid, unless someone wants to write a ppc code generator, or is 
willing to fund hiring a person to do it, that isn't going to happen in the 
near future. 

James Dunne <james.jdunne gmail.com> writes:

Walter Bright wrote:
 "akcom" <CppCoder gmail.com> wrote in message 
 news:dvnf8v$19d9$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 
Can we (or possibly just me, I don't see many D fans running linux/ppc) 
expect to see dmd compiled for linux/ppc, or just the powerpc architecture 
in general any time soon?  While I appreciate the effort going on with 
gdc, I'd like to have a perpetually up-to-date version of D available. 
Having just tossed my windows box, I'm simply dying without D.

 
 
 I'm afraid, unless someone wants to write a ppc code generator, or is 
 willing to fund hiring a person to do it, that isn't going to happen in the 
 near future. 
 
 

One option is to leverage existing code generators, such as LLVM 
mentioned recently.  Providing customizable back-ends to DMD would prove 
very useful.  Even just a C-code output back-end would be immensely 
useful for porting to other architectures.

-- 
Regards,
James Dunne