No Gnu D Compiler package

brvtalcake

Hello everyone, I apologize if I'm not posting this question at the right place, but I'm currently having trouble getting a working GDC installation on my brand new Solus desktop installation. I don't really mind using LDC or DMD (and I will anyway if there are no other choices and if I need to compiler D code), but since I like to build my own GCC releases (and thus I need GDC beforehand), I figured I could maybe ask here if by any means I could get a GDC binary to run only to bootstrap my actual GDC.
Also, since I've just switched to Solus (GNOME), are there any particular tips I should know about getting started with programming on Solus in general ? Or maybe some useful / recommended packages or some kind of metapackages I should install ? (Except installing system.devel packages, as I already did it)
EDIT : I didn't mention it, but both of eopkg search gdc and eopkg search gcc-d didn't show me any useful information

davidjharder

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Hi, welcome to Solus.

Right now LDC is the only compiler we package from the D ecosystem, hopefully that works for you.

Some pointers on doing development on Solus:

Whenever a development setup requires unusual steps, we try to make a page for it on our help center, under the User -> Software -> Development category, https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/software/development/
Most general development tools are part of the system.devel component (package graoup), you can install them with one command: sudo eopkg it -c system.devel
If you run into problems, you can also ask questions in our Matrix rooms. https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/contributing/getting-involved#matrix-chat

brvtalcake

davidjharder Hi, thank you for the clear answer (and sorry for replying this late). LDC is completely ok, and as I said I do not use D that much, so I just ended up not building GDC and everything was fine. Also thank you for the pointers, I'll check those pages if I need (everything is fine so far !). Have a nice weekend / day !