Re: How to compile my DMD fork?

2019-06-14 Thread Max Haughton via Digitalmars-d-learn

On Friday, 14 June 2019 at 18:07:11 UTC, Q. Schroll wrote:
Basically the headline. I want to try to implement my DIP. I've 
already forked DMD from GitHub. Now, what would I have to do in 
order to get a D compiler with my changes?


I have Windows on x86-64 and Visual Studio on my machine.


It might just be a quirk of my install (but It happened recently 
enough ago that it's worth mentioning) but if you get a really 
cryptic error message about some msbuild dll being missing you 
need to find the configuration option and manually set it to the 
dll actually present.


Re: How to compile my DMD fork?

2019-06-14 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-learn

On Friday, 14 June 2019 at 18:07:11 UTC, Q. Schroll wrote:
Basically the headline. I want to try to implement my DIP. I've 
already forked DMD from GitHub. Now, what would I have to do in 
order to get a D compiler with my changes?


I have Windows on x86-64 and Visual Studio on my machine.


Install VisualD and open src\vcbuild\dmd.sln.


Re: How to compile my DMD fork?

2019-06-14 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 06:07:11PM +, Q. Schroll via Digitalmars-d-learn 
wrote:
> Basically the headline. I want to try to implement my DIP. I've
> already forked DMD from GitHub. Now, what would I have to do in order
> to get a D compiler with my changes?
[...]

This might help:

https://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor#Development

Check esp. the sections on "Building from source".


T

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How to compile my DMD fork?

2019-06-14 Thread Q. Schroll via Digitalmars-d-learn
Basically the headline. I want to try to implement my DIP. I've 
already forked DMD from GitHub. Now, what would I have to do in 
order to get a D compiler with my changes?


I have Windows on x86-64 and Visual Studio on my machine.