Is there a way to setup a D cross compiler, suitible for OS development? The wiki has an article on this (GDC Cross-Compiler), but it is extremely outdated.
What can I expect from the cross compiler? I'm assuming there won't be a runtime / GC and such, and thus I can't create structs / classes and it'll just be a fancy C?
D Cross Compiler
D Cross Compiler
Last edited by Binero on Tue Mar 04, 2014 6:41 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: D Cross Compiler
That article is out of date and unfinished as you point out, I would just recommend you do a kernel in C or C++ as described in Bare Bones.
Re: D Cross Compiler
Hi, im using D for developing OS. See https://github.com/Bloodmanovski/Trinix
Trinix (written in D) https://github.com/Rikarin/Trinix
Streaming OS development https://www.livecoding.tv/satoshi/
Streaming OS development https://www.livecoding.tv/satoshi/
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Re: D Cross Compiler
Both LDC and GDC support other architectures than x86 and LDC is inherently a cross compiler. You have to adjust the runtime so that it supports the architecture and it is the runtime that is the challenge with D to get it to work both with a new architecture and in an OS free environment. D is not like C/C++ that can emit bare metal code directly without any runtime support.Binero wrote:Is there a way to setup a D cross compiler, suitible for OS development? The wiki has an article on this (GDC Cross-Compiler), but it is extremely outdated.
What can I expect from the cross compiler? I'm assuming there won't be a runtime / GC and such, and thus I can't create structs / classes and it'll just be a fancy C?
There are some people like Bloodman who has made an OS free runtime. Take a look at that code and you might get some idea how to port D for your needs.