D Programming/GNU D Compiler

GDC is an open-source D compiler using GCC as the back end and parts of DMD in the front end. The current version is 0.24 which is based on DMD 1.020.

The website can be found at http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/

An updated effort to help get GDC updated can be found at http://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/Home

Install GDC on Debian or Ubuntu

GDC is available in Ubuntu Repositories since 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon).

Also, a Debian package does exist for version 0.22 of the GNU D Compiler front end. See http://gdcgnu.sourceforge.net/

Joakim Karlsson has previously made a shell script for automatic installation. It needs to be updated for the latest version of the GNU D Compiler and the GCC Version.

#!/bin/sh
PREFIX=/opt/gdc
GCC_PACKAGE=gcc-4.0
GDC_SOURCE=gdc-0.17.tar.bz2
GDC_URL=http://home.earthlink.net/~dvdfrdmn/d/${GDC_SOURCE}
mkdir gdc
cd gdc
apt-get source ${GCC_PACKAGE}
tar xzf gcc*.orig.tar.gz
cd *.orig
tar xjf *.tar.bz2
cd gcc*
cd gcc
wget ${GDC_URL}
tar xjf gdc*.tar.bz2
cd ..
gcc/d/setup-gcc.sh
cd ..
gcc*/configure—prefix=${PREFIX} --enable-languages=d
make
sudo make install