December 26, 2012
On Monday, 19 November 2012 at 00:40:10 UTC, Rob T wrote:
> First I cloned everything from github master, and that went well but I'm now  encountering a lot of silly stumbling blocks due to inadequate documentation, for example it's clear how to build anything - period.
>
> There may be documentation somewhere(?), but all I could find was this external blog post
> http://xtzgzorex.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/d-building-dmd-and-phobos-on-linux/
>
> The instructions in the blog allowed me to successfully build DMD src with 64-bit arch on Linux. So far so good, but I'm sure this is not the end of the problems I'll encounter.
>
> Being new to this, I'll know immediately where the documentation is failing, so as I get stuck and unstuck I'm in a good position to create missing documentation or improve on the current documentation.
>
> If I'm to try and contribute, I have a few questions, for example can anyone contribute at this level (build process)? If I am allowed to contribute, then what's the process for making contributions?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --rt

There is a page in the wiki now:

http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD

I wonder why druntime is a separate repository, though. It is strongly tied to dmd anyways.
December 26, 2012
On Wednesday, 26 December 2012 at 10:09:59 UTC, qznc wrote:
> I wonder why druntime is a separate repository, though. It is strongly tied to dmd anyways.

It isn't; only parts of it are compiler-specific. Other areas are e.g. just OS abstractions, and thus it is used by GDC and LDC as well.

David
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