OpenD fork of LDC

Build instructions

Windows

Prerequisites

• Microsoft Visual Studio, the newer the better, with:
  • CMake workload
  • Clang workload (ldc will not build with msvc)
• ninja -- ldc will only build with ninja, grab here: https://ninja-build.org/
• LLVM prebuilt binaries, you can grab them here: https://github.com/ldc-developers/llvm-project/releases

Building steps

1. Use Visual Studio's "x64 Native Tools Command Prompt". In it, cd to ldc directory.
2. mkdir build -- it is best to build in a separate folder
3. cd build
4. cmake .. -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DLLVM_ROOT_DIR="D:\PATH\TO\LLVM" -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang-cl -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang-cl
   • LDC will only build with Ninja. At least I had no luck making it build with msbuild.
   • You can configure -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to either Release, either Debug
   • Reiterating, LDC will only build with clang compiler. Or, at least, I had no luck building it with msbuild.
5. ninja -- this will build everything

You will find the result in bin directory. You can use ldc2.exe directly, the ldc2.conf files is already set-up, no extra work needed.

LDC – the LLVM-based D Compiler

LDC is fully Open Source; the parts of the source code not taken/adapted from other projects are BSD-licensed (see the LICENSE file for details).

Please consult the D wiki for further information: https://wiki.dlang.org/LDC