DMD port

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Sounds good!

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 7:20 PM P Padil <ppadilcdx at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dmd apparently doesn’t support Apple Silicon compilation, at least that is what is stated in their compiler docs. I still tried to compile the source but got an error message that it doesn’t recognize the system.  Noted that gcc and ldc compilers do support Apple arm processor.  I’m planning to update the gcc13 port to add D, and add a new port for ldc compiler (llvm based).
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> > On Mar 11, 2024, at 3:10 PM, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Awesome!  Good luck! Looking forward to this...
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 2:38 PM P Padil <ppadilcdx at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> The port doesn’t have a maintainer, I’m going to update the port file and submit it to macports via github pull as per the instructions.  Since I’m new to portfiles it may take some time...
> >>
> >>> On Mar 11, 2024, at 12:25 PM, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi All;
> >>>
> >>> Not only that, but could there be a version for Apple Silicon? I've
> >>> been using a Docker container for DMD; not really convenient...
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Ken
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 11:50 AM P Padil <ppadilcdx at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>>> The dmd port is still at version 2.088 while upstream is at 2.107.1.  Any reason it is still stuck at this ancient version?  Can it be updated?
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards
> >>>>
> >>
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