On 14 December 2012 13:07, Dan <dbdavid...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Friday, 14 December 2012 at 12:15:28 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > >> On 12/14/12, Manu <turkey...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I've often had to pester Walter to produce a new build for us when a >>> critical bug/feature was fixed. >>> >>> >> Why waste Walter's time when building is as simple as calling make? >> > > His point was he clearly wants *not* to waste Walter's time. > > In the discussions of build system one thread was about using Ruby. A > comment was why not just use D to script it, you can do everything in D > that you can from ruby (or shell)? I wrote a small script to see how > cumbersome it would be to download and build D with that approach: one > piece grabs latest source (phobos, runtime, dmd, tools), one builds it. > http://pastebin.com/CC7DvZuJ > > It ain't pretty and tailored to linux. I don't know how D developers set > up their environment - a technote may exist somewhere? The focus in this > thread is on release process which is critical, but an addition to wiki > page on "how to get started as a developer on D project" might be useful. I > don't think it is that complex to build D, but for me it was not as simple > as just calling make because you have to get the prereqs, know things like > phobos inludes the runtime, so build runtime before phobos, and if you want > release and debug builds you should have separate folders since they build > in place. > I also made a small change local to posix.mak, to be able to build debug. > > ------ > -GFLAGS = $(WARNINGS) -D__pascal= -fno-exceptions -O2 > +ifneq (x,x$(DEBUG)) > + GFLAGS = $(WARNINGS) -D__pascal= -fno-exceptions -g -DDEBUG=1 > -DUNITTEST $(COV) > +else > + GFLAGS = $(WARNINGS) -D__pascal= -fno-exceptions -O2 > +endif > ------ > > This may all be bad advice, since I only did it to see if I could step > into associative array code to track down a bug and I don't know the good D > dev setup for linux. > > Any ideas that push toward continuous build/integration/test are the right > direction. >
Thank you.