Build from Sources for Linux FreeBSD

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Build Instructions

Dependencies:

• LLVM 2.9
• cmake 2.6+
• libconfig
• Need to install from source? Use ''' './configure --prefix=/usr' ''' to configure libconfig, otherwise you will get the error 'can't find libconfig++.so.8' from ldc
  • For MacOS you can use libconfig-hr from MacPorts
  • Beware, there are other libraries with the same name.
  • 1.4.7 is fine (maybe?)
• GNU make (not the default on FreeBSD, use gmake)
• ''optional'': Hans Boehm GC 7.0 (direct download linkh) (for ldc itself, works, but needs special treatment #49)
• ''optional'': Faster build of llvm and ldc with make -j N, where N is number of processor cores + 1.

Download, Compile and install LLVM 2.9:

wget http://llvm.org/releases/2.9/llvm-2.9.tgz tar -xvzf llvm-2.9.tgz mkdir llvm-obj cd llvm-obj ../llvm-2.9/configure --enable-optimized --enable-assertions make su -c 'make install' cd ..

Grab LDC from the Mercurial repository: {{{ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/lindquist/ldc }}}

Generate the makefiles {{{ cd ldc ccmake ./ }}} Now press 'c' as often as necessary and then 'g' to exit ccmake. You can set D_VERSION to 1 or 2 to build LDC with [http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/index.html D1] or D2 language support.

Note:

• If you have libconfig installed in /usr/local/lib, you also need to set LIBCONFIG_LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -lconfig++" in advanced options of ccmake (while configuring, press 't', scroll down).
• If you are a Debian user, the ccmake command comes in the cmake-curses-gui package, so you have to get that too or just use plain cmake.
• On FreeBSD/Solaris, use gmake instead of make.

Compile ldc {{{ make }}}