Please note: The D Programming Language version 1 is discontinued effective December 31, 2012.

For the latest language development, see: dlang.org

There is now no support for GCC versions older than 4.7.0, and the new license is GPL version 3.

For the latest compiler development, see: gdcproject.org

D is a general purpose systems and applications programming language.

The D programming language is a higher level language than C++, but retains the ability to write high performance code and interface directly with the operating system API's and with hardware. D is not a scripting language, nor an interpreted language.

The Digital Mars D Compiler (DMD), is also available for various systems

DMD by Digital Mars, see http://www.digitalmars.com/d/

The official D "reference" compiler, DMD, is based on the same back-end as the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler for Windows. The GDC compiler was made by adapting the DMD frontend source code, to work with the regular GCC backend.

The GCC D Compiler (GDC) is based on the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)

GDC by David Friedman, see http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/

You can run programs created with GDC on any GNU/Linux machine (no special run-time libraries required) It is also possible to link with programs created by the usual versions of the GCC C Compiler (gcc) and the GCC C++ Compiler (g++).

Current Release

Download GDC r229 for MinGW, based on DMD 1.030 and released in June 2008:

RPM: (Fedora, RedHat, etc.) - no offical Fedora package, it uses LDC/Tango

 GDC r229 for x86 GNU/Linux (Intel 32-bit) based on GCC 4.3.5, 2.5 MB
 Phobos standard library import modules required dependency, 700 kB

DEB: (Ubuntu, Debian, etc.) - see the official Debian package called "gdc-4.3"

You need to have regular GCC Developer Tools already installed, in order to use this GDC package. Source packages are available too, usually just GDC without the GCC/GDB sources included - those are available separately (for size reasons only)

Previous Release

Download GDC 0.24 for GNU/Linux, based on DMD 1.020 and released on Aug 22 2007:

RPM: (Fedora, RedHat, etc.) - no offical Fedora package, but see gdcgnu.repo

 GDC 0.24 for x86 GNU/Linux (Intel/PC) based on GCC 4.1.2, 3.2 MB
 This package contains gdc, built for i686-pc-linux-gnu from FSF GCC with GDC.
 GDB-D 0.0 for x86 GNU/Linux (Intel/PC) based on GDB 6.5, 2.8 MB
 This is the GNU debugger with patches for D support, built for i686-pc-linux-gnu.
 GDC 0.24 for PPC GNU/Linux (PowerPC/Mac) based on GCC 4.1.2, 3.7 M
 This package contains gdc, built for powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu from FSF GCC with GDC.
 GDB-D 0.0 for PPC GNU/Linux (PowerPC/Mac) based on GDB 6.5, 4.3 M
 This is the GNU debugger with patches for D support, built for powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu.

DEB: (Ubuntu, Debian, etc.) - see the official Debian package called "gdc-4.1"

Software License

GDC is Free Software, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL)

Free Software grants you four basic freedoms: (see also the License Agreement)

• Freedom to use the program, for any purpose.
• Freedom to study how the program works and to adapt it to your needs (source code access).
• Freedom to copy and distribute (you can help your neighbour).
• Freedom to improve the program and make the enhancements available so all the community benefits.