On 19.09.2014 03:36, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
Most notable change since DConf is that on Windows, Digger can now build D from source (including x64 versions) without requiring Git or Visual Studio to be installed. It achieves this by downloading and locally installing (unpacking) all the software it needs. Windows binaries: https://github.com/CyberShadow/Digger/releases/tag/1.0 Digger is a tool for working with D's source code and its history. It can build D (including older D versions), customize the build with pending pull requests or forks, and find the exact pull request which introduced a regression (or fixed a bug). It comes together with a web interface which makes building D from source trivial even for people new to D, Git or the command line. https://github.com/CyberShadow/Digger
I tried it on Windows and Digger does an amazing job at installing dependencies. I think we should recommend it as the first thing to run when trying to get your hands on building dmd/phobos.
In case someone starts creating patches: Would it be possible to also write a batch file into the repository folder to redo a build of dmd, druntime and phobos without checking all the dependencies?
How about running the test suite?
