On 1/31/14, Andrei Alexandrescu <[email protected]> wrote: > * Ask the community for help NOT on a large matter.
The way I see it both the GDC and LDC projects suffer from a difficult barrier to entry for anyone new to the compilers. For example, to build either of the compilers you need to go through a massive list of things that you have to do **manually**: http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/Installation/Generic http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_from_source And those are Posix instructions. Windows instructions are typically out of date, randomly break, have never been tested, missing crucial info, etc etc. It's always a nightmare to build the damn thing. Why aren't there simple scripts that can auto-build the compilers from start to finish, including fetching the dependencies? For example, someone made a script that makes building MinGW on Windows really easy: https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds You can build multiple versions of MinGW, and it actually works, and its all automated. Meanwhile to build DMD all it takes is make -f <your_platform>.mak. If DMD wasn't so easy to build *I would have never contributed to it*. But GDC and LDC have a huge barrier to entry, I honestly can't be bothered to waste yet another afternoon following someone's latest wiki entry on how to build their project, which typically fails in some step N in the instructions.
