https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20338
[email protected] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|dmd, phobos, and druntime |dmd, phobos, and druntime |build systems should be |build systems should be |modernized |updated --- Comment #1 from [email protected] --- I have recently cleaned, rebuilt, reinstalled, and tested dmd, phobos, and the druntime components needed by phobos with success for the Posix case. However, I believe the following issues in these interdependent build systems need attention: * The local repositories get contaminated with build files. (This issue can be addressed by implementing separate build trees for such file to receive such files.) * There are obscure interactions between the phobos build and druntime build, clean, and install targets that violate the principle of least surprise. For example, the phobos build indirectly builds druntime, but the phobos clean and install do not clean and install druntime. * There appears to be a separate build procedure for Windows and Posix systems. * The install tree has a hard-coded location which makes it difficult to package dmd, phobos, and druntime for free software distributions. All of these issues can be straightforwardly addressed by a "super-build" set of modern CMake-based build systems for dmd, phobos, and druntime that would coexist peacefully with your present build systems. If some dmd/phobos/druntime developer is keen on such an update I would be happy to lend my decade+ experience with CMake to help get them started. --
