• Joseph Rushton Wakeling (25/25) Feb 19 2017 Revision 4 of the ldc2 snap package is now available in the
• visitor (5/7) Feb 19 2017 Works for me on ubuntu 16.04 (llvm-3.8), Thanks :-)
• Joseph Rushton Wakeling (15/18) Feb 19 2017 Great to know that it works for you, thanks for trying it out :-)

Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:

Revision 4 of the ldc2 snap package is now available in the 
'edge' channel of the snap store.  This still provides LDC 1.1.0 
with an LLVM 3.9.1 backend, but has been rebuilt in a clean build 
using the latest `snapcraft` release, which has improved support 
for classic snaps across different distributions.

This package should therefore now work on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as 
well as on 16.04 or later.

Link-time optimization (the `-flto={full,thin}` flag) is however 
still limited to Ubuntu 16.04 or later: on 14.04 it will fail 
with a linker error.

As always, I'd be very happy if people could try this out and let 
me know how it works for you.


-- to install --

This package should be possible to install on Ubuntu 16.04 or 
later, or Ubuntu 14.04, as well as any other distro making 
available a recent version of snapd (2.21 or later):
https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/install

Once snapd is installed (on Ubuntu or Debian, `sudo apt install 
snapd`), the ldc2 snap can be installed with:

     sudo snap install --classic --edge ldc2

If you already have a version installed, you can upgrade it with:

     sudo snap refresh --classic --edge ldc2

Note, if this version breaks something for you, you can downgrade 
to revision 3 with:

     sudo snap refresh --classic --edge --revision=3 ldc2

visitor <visitor gmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 19 February 2017 at 11:24:17 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
 Revision 4 of the ldc2 snap package is now available in the 
 'edge' channel of the snap store.

Works for me on ubuntu 16.04 (llvm-3.8), Thanks :-)
Not heavily tested, just to let you know for some feedback on 
your work, again Thanks

Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:

On Sunday, 19 February 2017 at 16:18:48 UTC, visitor wrote:
 Works for me on ubuntu 16.04 (llvm-3.8), Thanks :-)
 Not heavily tested, just to let you know for some feedback on 
 your work, again Thanks

Great to know that it works for you, thanks for trying it out :-)

Note the snap package doesn't use the distro-packaged LLVM; it's 
based on a fresh build of LLVM 3.9.1.  You can verify this by 
using


packaged version

D frontend versions

The latter should read:

   LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.1.0):
     based on DMD v2.071.2 and LLVM 3.9.1
     built with LDC - the LLVM D compiler (0.17.3)

Out of curiosity, have you tried using the link-time optimization 
feature?  (-flto=full)