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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 The wiki has an article on this (GDC Cross-Compiler), but it is extremely outdated.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?

That article is out of date and unfinished as you point out, I would just recommend you do a kernel in C or C++ as described in Bare Bones.

Hi, im using D for developing OS. See https://github.com/Bloodmanovski/Trinix

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 The wiki has an article on this (GDC Cross-Compiler), but it is extremely outdated.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?

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.

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.