Introduction

This provides a pre-built, binary GDC toolchain. GDC is a GCC based compiler for the D language.
Sources are available at github and more information is available on the wiki. Please
report bugs to our bugtracker.

Installation

Simply extract this archive to some folder, but do not extract to your system root folder (/).

cd /home/jpf
wget http://gdcproject.org/downloads/binaries/x86_64-linux-gnu/arm-linux-gnueabi_2.064.2_gcc4.8.2_665978132e_20140312.tar.xz
tar xf arm-linux-gnueabi_2.064.2_gcc4.8.2_665978132e_20140312.tar.xz

Windows

Extract the archive with your favorite archive manager, e.g. 7zip. If it asks whether it should overwrite files,
answer yes. (The archives are built on case-sensitive filesystems, extracting on case-insensitive filesystems can cause these warnings).

Usage

Introduction

The compiler executable is called TARGET-gdc[.exe] and the full path is TARGET/bin/TARGET-gdc[.exe]. To compile a simple hello world:

echo 'import std.stdio; void main(){writeln("Hello World!");}' > hello.d
arm-gdcproject-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-gdcproject-linux-gnueabi-gdc hello.d -o hello

#or export the path
export PATH=$PATH:$PWD/arm-gdcproject-linux-gnueabi/bin
arm-gdcproject-linux-gnueabi-gdc hello.d -o hello

Windows users should replace arm-gdcproject-linux-gnueabi-gdc with arm-gdcproject-linux-gnueabi-gdc.exe.

More GDC usage information is available at http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/Using_GDC ,
http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC and http://gdcproject.org .

Advanced

The difficult part now is how to use third party libraries with cross-compilers.
The standard way to do this is to build all required libraries with this toolchain,
see crosstool-NG for more information.

A simpler way is to use the root filesystems of a real TARGET machine via SSH.
See http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/Cross_Compiler/Existing_Sysroot for details.