Building LDC for Solaris

To build LDC on Solaris is a bit tricky due to some problems when building LLVM. There are no LLVM packages for Solaris yet.

• Get and unpack the custom GCC (for building LLVM on x86/AMD64)

  su root
  wget http://pkg.auroraux.org/GCC/gcc4.tar.7z
  7z x gcc4.tar.7z
  tar -xvf gcc4.tar
  

(All files will be unpacked to /opt/gcc4/)

• Compile and install LLVM.

  wget http://llvm.org/releases/2.8/llvm-2.8.tar.gz
  gunzip llvm-2.8.tar.gz
  tar -xvf llvm-2.8.tar
  mkdir llvm-obj
  cd llvm-obj
  export PATH=/opt/gcc4/bin:$PATH
  ../llvm-2.8/configure --enable-optimized
  gmake
  gmake install
  

• Compile and Install libconfig.

  wget http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/libconfig-1.3.2.tar.gz
  tar -xvzf libconfig-1.3.2.tar.gz
  cd libconfig
  ./configure
  gmake
  gmake install
  

• Compile LDC.

  hg clone http://hg.dsource.org/projects/ldc ldc
  cd ldc
  ccmake ./
  gmake
  

Note: In ccmake, press 'c' and then 'g'.

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Here is an example ldc.conf for use with Tango: (import/ contains tango/ and object.di, lib/ contains libtango.a)

default:
{
    switches = [
        "-I%%ldcbinarypath%%/../import",
        "-I%%ldcbinarypath%%/../import/tango/core/vendor",
        "-L-L%%ldcbinarypath%%/../lib",
        "-d-version=Tango",
        "-defaultlib=tango",
        "-debuglib=tango"
    ];
};

The mandatory "Hello World":

import tango.io.Stdout;

void main()
{
   Stdout("Hello World.").newline;
}

ldc main.d
./main