On 1/31/14, 7:16 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
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out of date, randomly break, have never been tested, missing crucial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?
[snip]
This is very interesting observation, and an obvious area of
improvement. Andrej, could you please file two issues under bugzilla
with the respective tags ldc and gdc? I'll see if I can place bounties
on them.
Andrei
