Bootstrapping GDC with DMD

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Author: LorenDB

Date: 7/13/2026

Article Summary:

A developer shares their experience bootstrapping the GNU D Compiler (GDC) on FreeBSD by using a wrapper program to translate the flag differences between DMD and GDC.