I had to set up dmd and friends on a fresh Ubuntu box, so I thought I'd document the step-by-step process:

http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor

Along the way I also hit a small snag and fixed it at

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1049

Further improvements are welcome.


Thanks,

Andrei

On 8/3/15 5:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I had to set up dmd and friends on a fresh Ubuntu box, so I thought I'd
> document the step-by-step process:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor

You should make sure there's no overlap with this:

http://wiki.dlang.org/Get_involved

I think it's a great idea to have a bootstrap for how to get your environment set up. It's been a long time since I did it. What I did is to download a dmd release zipfile, then delete the dmd, druntime, and phobos src, replacing it with cloned git repositories.

I also deleted all the binaries/libraries under bin/os directory, and use symlinks to the built files from their appropriate source directories. This way I can test changes without having to create a new installation somewhere.

-Steve

On 04-Aug-2015 01:30, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 8/3/15 5:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I had to set up dmd and friends on a fresh Ubuntu box, so I thought I'd
>> document the step-by-step process:
>>
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor
>
> You should make sure there's no overlap with this:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Get_involved
>
> I think it's a great idea to have a bootstrap for how to get your
> environment set up. It's been a long time since I did it. What I did is
> to download a dmd release zipfile, then delete the dmd, druntime, and
> phobos src, replacing it with cloned git repositories.
>

> I also deleted all the binaries/libraries under bin/os directory, and
> use symlinks to the built files from their appropriate source
> directories. This way I can test changes without having to create a new
> installation somewhere.
>

Yes, it's fairly simple way that I used countless times with great success.


-- 
Dmitry Olshansky

On 08/03/2015 02:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I had to set up dmd and friends on a fresh Ubuntu box, so I thought I'd
> document the step-by-step process:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor
>
> Along the way I also hit a small snag and fixed it at
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1049
>
> Further improvements are welcome.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

I am trying this now. I've already hit a problem. The wiki makes it sound like the bootstrapping is optional. As I already have dmd 2.067, I skipped that stepped and failed when making druntime as it apparently assumes the bootstrapped dmd:

[druntime]$ make -f posix.mak
../dmd/src/dmd -conf= -c -o- -Isrc -Iimport -Hfimport/core/sync/barrier.di src/core/sync/barrier.d
make: ../dmd/src/dmd: Command not found
make: *** [import/core/sync/barrier.di] Error 127

A symbolic link to dmd 2.067 failed because it does not know about pragma(inline). Fine...

Bootstrapping now... :)

Ali

On Monday, 3 August 2015 at 22:30:23 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> I also deleted all the binaries/libraries under bin/os directory, and use symlinks to the built files from their appropriate source directories. This way I can test changes without having to create a new installation somewhere.

It's much cleaner to use $HOME/bin for that purpose and not touch the /usr/bin, which is supposed to be managed by the package manager. At least openSUSE prepends $HOME/bin at the front of PATH, I believe Ubuntu does the same.

On 8/4/15 1:35 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> I am trying this now. I've already hit a problem. The wiki makes it
> sound like the bootstrapping is optional. As I already have dmd 2.067, I
> skipped that stepped and failed when making druntime as it apparently
> assumes the bootstrapped dmd:

Yah, druntime requires the freshly-built dmd. I mentioned that in the wiki. -- Andrei

On 8/4/15 8:25 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 8/4/15 1:35 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> I am trying this now. I've already hit a problem. The wiki makes it
>> sound like the bootstrapping is optional. As I already have dmd 2.067, I
>> skipped that stepped and failed when making druntime as it apparently
>> assumes the bootstrapped dmd:
>
> Yah, druntime requires the freshly-built dmd. I mentioned that in the
> wiki. -- Andrei

Now added similar mentions of prerequisites, and also a whole section on "Typical Contributor Workflow". -- Andrei

On 08/04/2015 07:02 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>  a whole section on
> "Typical Contributor Workflow". -- Andrei

In case there are others that don't know, "git co" in that section is an alias to "git checkout":


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14489109/how-to-alias-git-checkout-to-git-co

Ali

On 8/4/15 11:42 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 08/04/2015 07:02 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>  a whole section on
>> "Typical Contributor Workflow". -- Andrei
>
> In case there are others that don't know, "git co" in that section is an
> alias to "git checkout":
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14489109/how-to-alias-git-checkout-to-git-co
>
>
> Ali

Oops, my bad. Fixed now. -- Andrei

On 03/08/15 23:25, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I had to set up dmd and friends on a fresh Ubuntu box, so I thought I'd
> document the step-by-step process:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor
>
> Along the way I also hit a small snag and fixed it at
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1049
>
> Further improvements are welcome.

I recommend turning this wiki page into a new page, "Contribute", at dlang.org. Put it as a top level menu item (or possibly under "Community"). This page could also contain information how to make a pull request.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg