On 27/11/2010 22:11, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > On Saturday 27 November 2010 14:04:26 Bob Cowdery wrote: >> I've just started to get organised to port my project from Windows to >> Ubuntu. I see there is now a DMD for Linux which I have installed. My >> question is can anyone tell me what I need to build the C libraries in >> to be compatible. On Windows I had to use DMC or convert the libraries. >> As there is no DMC on Linux will GNU GCC output link with DMD output? > On windows, optlink is used by dmd to link binaries. optlink is the linker > for > dmc. Since, you need compatible linkers for both the D and C code if you want > them to link together, you use dmc for your C code. > > On Linux, gcc is used to link by dmd to link binaries. So, the C code needs > to > be linked by gcc. And since it pretty much already all is, you don't have to > worry about it. The situtation is much better than on Windows where there > you're > more likely to be using Microsoft's compiler than dmc, and you have to adjust > what your doing to use dmc. On Linux, it should just work (as long you're > dealing with 32-bit libraries anyway; that can be a bit of a problem on > 64-bit > machines, since the 64-bit port for dmd isn't complete yet, but generally all > you have to do is make sure that you have the 32-bit versions installed, and > you > should be fine). > > - Jonathan M Davis Thats good news. I stick to 32 bit as 64 bit still seems to be a hassle for drivers etc. Thanks very much.
bob
