On 08/21/2016 12:56 PM, Seb wrote:
On Sunday, 21 August 2016 at 16:41:27 UTC, NX wrote:
[warning: rant ahead]
I'm amazed by the lack of documentation - or to say it better,
documentation that works - on how to compile DMD and eventually
Phobos. Here
[https://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor#Windows_2] we have
awfully categorized yet promising information on how to seriously
compile DMD from source.
There are usually three Makefile posix.mak, win32.mak and win64.mak.
As you might expect it's quite a pain to keep them updated and as core
developers on Windows are in the minority, the Windows Makefiles often
lack features or have other "mysterious ways".
Imho the best way to deal with this problem is to unify the Makefiles by
(a) using a cross-platform build tool like reggae (see [1] for one of
the discussions), (b) figure out what commands are possible in a
cross-platform way and merge win{32, 64}.mak back to the common Makefile.
[1] http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
How does the makefile unification help the lack of documentation? -- Andrei
