Am Sat, 03 Oct 2015 10:38:51 +0000 schrieb Atila Neves <atila.ne...@gmail.com>:
> On Friday, 2 October 2015 at 11:06:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu > wrote: > > The Wiki page http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD could be > > easily reorganized to make better. > > > > Currently it uses sections such as "Getting the sources", > > "Building the sources", etc. Within each seion there's a Posix > > section and a Windows section. > > > > However, folks using e.g. Windows have no interest in Posix and > > shouldn't have to skip through portions of the document. > > > > So the better organization would be to fork the page into two, > > and have http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD link to them: > > > > * Building on Windows > > * Building on Posix > > > > Could someone please look into this? I see the main author is > > BBaz, is (s)he active on this forum? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andrei > > Better yet would be to have a process so simple that it doesn't > require a wiki. > > Atila You mean Posix: make && make install ? Sure, but what about dependencies, an explanation of the self-hosting process and optional variables ? Even when it is simple I tend to look at such a Wiki first to know if I'm missing out on some flag-enabled feature or to know where the files will install (/opt, /usr/local, ... ) -- Marco