I've been trying to update some documentation on dlang.org.  The instructions at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md say I should be able to do

make -f posix.make file.html

This doesn't seem to work, as I get "no rule t omake target 'file.html'.

I tried 'make -f posix.mak' and that requires dmd, druntime, and maybe a mess of other things, and takes forever.  And ultimately it fails with 'No rule to make target 'release'.  Stop.'

Isn't there any easy one-liner I can use to render a single .dd file to html to test my changes?

Thanks,
Mike

On Sunday, 31 August 2014 at 05:41:58 UTC, Mike wrote:
> I've been trying to update some documentation on dlang.org.  The instructions at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md say I should be able to do
>
> make -f posix.make file.html
>
> This doesn't seem to work, as I get "no rule t omake target 'file.html'.
>
> I tried 'make -f posix.mak' and that requires dmd, druntime, and maybe a mess of other things, and takes forever.  And ultimately it fails with 'No rule to make target 'release'.  Stop.'
>
> Isn't there any easy one-liner I can use to render a single .dd file to html to test my changes?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike

This seems to do it:

dmd -c -o- macros.ddoc doc.ddoc -Df{ddoc_filename}.html {ddoc_filename}.dd

If someone knows of a more "official" syntax, please let me know.

Mike

> dmd -c -o- macros.ddoc doc.ddoc -Df{ddoc_filename}.html {ddoc_filename}.dd
>
> If someone knows of a more "official" syntax, please let me know.

I don't know of another syntax, but could you please put this
somewhere on the wiki?
Maybe in the cookbook section:

http://wiki.dlang.org/Cookbook