Have you ever wanted to use D in a project where not everyone had
D installed or maybe you wanted to fix the compiler to a specific
version?
I typically use a simple Makefile in such cases and download my
preferred DMD and LDC version. As others who I have shown this
have found this useful, I thought it might be helpful to other
people (even so it's pretty straight-forward).
The cool part about this is that you don't have to worry about
anything. People can just type `make` and everything works
magically.
It's essentially a poor man's version of virtualenv for use cases
where people are too lazy to use the install script or
auto-env/dir-env can't be used either.
I added a few other common "boilerplate" things (CI integration,
CodeCov, Documentation build, linting, ...) to this template:
https://github.com/wilzbach/d-bootstrap
Happy bootstrapping!
Why not Docker?
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Docker is typically used to allow a consistent work environment,
but in my use cases Docker isn't available.
If you want to use Docker, check out the [D docker
images](https://hub.docker.com/r/dlanguage/dmd/).
Additional bonus
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Want to use D in a Web IDE?
Use [Cloud9](https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9), clone this repo and
run `make` - it will work out of the box.
