On Sunday, 21 August 2016 at 18:57:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
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
because (1) you need less documentation (just one file to
document) and (2) the single file will be more
tested/bullet-proof.
Anyways sorry about mentioning it - I know that such (a) a change
shouldn't be taken lightly and it also may cause additional
troubles and (b) it isn't that related to the problem of the
poster.
