On Monday, 19 November 2012 at 00:40:10 UTC, Rob T wrote:
First I cloned everything from github master, and that went
well but I'm now encountering a lot of silly stumbling blocks
due to inadequate documentation, for example it's clear how to
build anything - period.
There may be documentation somewhere(?), but all I could find
was this external blog post
http://xtzgzorex.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/d-building-dmd-and-phobos-on-linux/
The instructions in the blog allowed me to successfully build
DMD src with 64-bit arch on Linux. So far so good, but I'm sure
this is not the end of the problems I'll encounter.
Being new to this, I'll know immediately where the
documentation is failing, so as I get stuck and unstuck I'm in
a good position to create missing documentation or improve on
the current documentation.
If I'm to try and contribute, I have a few questions, for
example can anyone contribute at this level (build process)? If
I am allowed to contribute, then what's the process for making
contributions?
Thanks.
--rt
There is a page in the wiki now:
http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD
I wonder why druntime is a separate repository, though. It is
strongly tied to dmd anyways.
