I've recently installed Fedora 16 (which is great), mostly because I wanted to try LDC2 but also because Gnome Shell runs much smoother on Fedora than Ubuntu 11.10 (at least on my hardware).
LDC2 works great, but I'm wondering if, by outputting LLVM .ll/.bc code, I can compile AND RUN the application on Windows/Mac/Android. I can compile .ll/.bc files to a ASM .s on my Windows machine with LLVM. However, my first attempts at compiling the ASM gives me the error: "'main' functions not found.". Looking through the ASM I do see a _Dmain function. I have no prior experience compiling ASM so I'm a bit lost.
I understand DRuntime comes into play here, but up-to-date information on the state of LDC2's DRuntime platform support is scarce. So I'm wondering what my options are here. Can LDC2 compile code for Windows at this point? Is cross-compiling for any other platform/architecture supported at this time?
What about GDC? I'd like to try GDC but I can't find it on the Fedora Software Center, and I'm a bit new to Linux so I'm having difficulties building it from source.
D (version 2) is my favorite language (C# at second), and I'm looking forward to the day I can write games/apps in D without having to worry about hardware or platform support. I'm rooting for the language and I hope the Open Source community embraces D strongly in the future. It truly is the best balance of power, performance, and productivity I've ever seen.
No. Not only due to runtime differences. Read http://llvm.org/docs/FAQ.html#platformindependent . Though it's C/C++ oriented, but still many things apply to D as well.