Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:23:19 +0100 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Julien Laffaye <kimelto@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New BSD licensed debugger Message-ID: <D690363C-07B8-4B00-AB55-5C7DA2F1E965@rabson.org> In-Reply-To: <4A9859CA.9080606@elischer.org> References: <8819E53E-9F96-43E2-B7F5-F5393F5AE126@rabson.org> <fee671620908281334w47139f6dg773a10449dee3fc3@mail.gmail.com> <1F28170B-BA01-4988-8BB8-9875B9D00DD5@rabson.org> <4A9859CA.9080606@elischer.org>
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On 28 Aug 2009, at 23:27, Julian Elischer wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: >> On 28 Aug 2009, at 21:34, Julien Laffaye wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Doug Rabson<dfr@rabson.org> wrote: >>>> Personally, I use LDC >>>> which is a D front end to LLVM but that doesn't build out-of-the >>>> box (I have >>>> a private hacked version of LDC and some associated libraries). >>> >>> Can you put the patchs somewhere ? Im also interested in >>> compiling/using LDC on FreeBSD. >>> Have you considered to submit them upstream? >> I will certainly submit patches to the LDC guys in due course. This >> really is my preferred compiler - its free, open source and >> actively maintained. Having said that DMD will work for anyone that >> just wants to play with the debugger. >>> Your debugger looks promising, I'll test it when I can use a >>> decent D >>> compiler (LDC) >> D support in the debugger is fair - I have good support for D >> dynamic arrays and some for associative arrays. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org >> " > > > so can one link 'D' stuff easily with current C code? I'm guessing > yes but I've learned to not take things for granted. > > For example can one link with the X libs or qt or whatever > to do graphical stuff? Yes - interfacing with C is just a case of declaring stuff as 'extern (C)'. I do this in several places to get to things like editline and ptrace. There are projects that interface to graphical libs such as GTK etc.
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