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digitalmars.D.learn - ldc on a raspberry pi 3 running freebsd

reply Decabytes <mycontributiontotheworld gmail.com> writes:
I've been playing around in D for a bit and I'm enjoying it so 
far. I've also been testing out freebsd on a Raspberry Pi 3. I 
noticed that there is actually a package for LDC on the raspberry 
pi 3, and thought it would be fun to play around with D on an ARM 
platform.

I installed it with "pkg install ldc", but embarrassingly I'm not 
actually sure where the compiler is. ldc isn't a recognized 
action on the command line, and I've hunted around my 
/usr/local/llvm10/ directory but I'm having difficulty finding 
anything that looks like what I'm looking for. Does anyone have 
any experience with ldc on freebsd that could help me out?
Feb 23 2021
next sibling parent reply Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 23 February 2021 at 14:56:45 UTC, Decabytes wrote:

 I installed it with "pkg install ldc", but embarrassingly I'm 
 not actually sure where the compiler is. ldc isn't a recognized 
 action on the command line


It is often called `ldc2` so give that a try.

btw I run gdc on my raspberry pi 3 from the raspbian distro 
package and it is pretty nice too. though ldc will have newer D 
frontend features as the version they have packaged of gdc is a 
touch old, both work pretty well.
Feb 23 2021
parent reply Decabytes <mycontributiontotheworld gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 23 February 2021 at 15:11:32 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 23 February 2021 at 14:56:45 UTC, Decabytes wrote:



 It is often called `ldc2` so give that a try.

 btw I run gdc on my raspberry pi 3 from the raspbian distro 
 package and it is pretty nice too. though ldc will have newer D 
 frontend features as the version they have packaged of gdc is a 
 touch old, both work pretty well.


ldc2 is the winner thank you! I'd like to get gdc and dmd up and 
running to at some point, but seeing as they aren't packaged up 
it will prob require building from source, which I'm not totally 
sure how to do or if it's even feasible on a raspberry pi 3 with 
only 1gb of ram. I wonder if it would be easier to load up 
freebsd on my main desktop get dmd and gdc running there, and 
then cross compile for arm64. Who knows! I probably won't be 
trying it for awhile but if anyone has any experience with this 
as well I'm all ears. Thanks again for the help
Feb 23 2021
parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2021-02-23 16:34, Decabytes wrote:


 ldc2 is the winner thank you! I'd like to get gdc and dmd up and running 
 to at some point


Unfortunately, DMD doesn't support ARM.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Feb 26 2021
prev sibling parent reply Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy gmail.com> writes:
On 2/23/21 9:56 AM, Decabytes wrote:

 I've been playing around in D for a bit and I'm enjoying it so far. I've 
 also been testing out freebsd on a Raspberry Pi 3. I noticed that there 
 is actually a package for LDC on the raspberry pi 3, and thought it 
 would be fun to play around with D on an ARM platform.
 
 I installed it with "pkg install ldc", but embarrassingly I'm not 
 actually sure where the compiler is. ldc isn't a recognized action on 
 the command line, and I've hunted around my /usr/local/llvm10/ directory 
 but I'm having difficulty finding anything that looks like what I'm 
 looking for. Does anyone have any experience with ldc on freebsd that 
 could help me out?


Found this on the internet:

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/list-of-the-installed-files-of-a-package.66372/

looks like:

pkg info -l name-of-package

It should show you were it put the ldc command and what it's called.

-Steve
Feb 23 2021
parent Decabytes <mycontributiontotheworld gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 23 February 2021 at 15:15:56 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:

 On 2/23/21 9:56 AM, Decabytes wrote:



 Found this on the internet:

 https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/list-of-the-installed-files-of-a-package.66372/

 looks like:

 pkg info -l name-of-package

 It should show you were it put the ldc command and what it's 
 called.

 -Steve


Aha "pkg info ldc2 | grep "bin"" yielded the location in 
/usr/local/bin/ldc2. Thanks!
Feb 23 2021