On Sunday, 8 January 2023 at 11:27:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Have you ever considered hacking on the D compiler but were
intimidated by the build process? Dennis Korpel has been
working on a series of video tutorials aimed at helping
potential contributors establish a foundation from which to
start contributing code.
In this first tutorial of the series, he gives an overview of
what happens when compiling a D source file, then shows how to
set up an environment from which to build dmd and the standard
library/runtime binary. The next video will use this setup to
start making changes to dmd.
https://youtu.be/iLN4rQkk4Fs
The plan is to publish a new tutorial in the series every two
weeks, so you can look for the next tutorial on January 22.
Thanks to Dennis for offering to put these videos together.
Even a short video like this one takes a significant time
investment to go from concept to publication. I'm certain there
are people out there who will find them beneficial.
Last time i tried to build DMD to finish a PR i had was a
miserable expenrience that i decided to give up
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/14418
The Wiki is outdated and mentions tools that do not exist
https://wiki.dlang.org/Building_under_Windows
I updated it with the little information i had but that still
wasn't enough to be able to build the whole thing
I even asked on the forum for some help, wich was met with
silence
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]?page=1
While this video definitely help, but i'm not going to rewind to
find information on a 7minutes video, it should be a simple
document, with a set of simple scripts and they should put
accessible under the DMD repo
It shouldn't be that convoluted
