Re: [Plplot-devel] D examples and Ubuntu Karmic

[Werner S. <sm...@ia...>]

Hi Andrew,

I would expect problems, since gdc is not maintained anymore
(http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/, last update 2007). There are plans to
update it or even to add official D support to gcc, but it seems nothing
happened (yet?).

I would suggest that you use the offical D compiler by digitalmars.com
(http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html) but use Version 1, since
Version 2 is not stable (even the language specifications are not
stable, and examples are written for Version 1).

I use(d) it on Windows and Mac OS X and the digitalmars.com compiler
just works fine with our CBS and examples.

That's unfortunate that gdc seems to be broken, but it's not maintained
anymore.

Regards,
Werner

PS: There are other projects like ldc, based on llvm,
(http://www.dsource.org/projects/ldc) but I'm not sure if our CBS will
find this compiler.

PPS: GDC work seems to be continued, but no binaries to download yet:
http://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/Home

On 5/27/10 12:04 PM, Andrew Ross wrote:
> 
> I've just got round to installing gdc on my 64 bit Ubuntu Karmic system and unfortunately I am
> running into lots of problems. Examples 1, 3, 6, 7, 12, 14, 18, 19, 23, 31 all crash with a
> segmentation fault. The crash is consistent, but occurs in different places in different
> examples. For some it is immediate, for others it is after selecting a device. In some cases
> several pages are plotted before the crash. All other examples are fine.
> 
> On my 32 bit Ubuntu Lucid system all works fine. 
> 
> This is with gdc 4.2.4. I don't think it is a 64-bit issue since Alan has reported no problems,
> so I suspect it is to do with the d compiler version. Has anyone else had problems?
> 
> Andrew
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