Hello everyone, I was interested in contributing to the DUB project. So, I forked the repo, installed DMD and libcurl as instructed in the README. I ran build.sh inside the repo. It then creates a dub executable inside of bin folder. After that I was stuck as there was no documentation on how to make changes or how to compile the thing. I then ran ./bin/dub and it started some compilation. The linking also worked. After that I see this :

Performing "debug" build using dmd for x86-64.
dub 1.19.0-rc.1+commit.20.g14cc8e5: building configuration "application"...
Serializing composite type BuildRequirements which has no serializable fields
Serializing composite type BuildOptions which has no serializable fields
Linking...
Running ./bin/dub
Performing "debug" build using dmd for x86_64.
dub 1.19.0-rc.1+commit.20.g14cc8e5: target for configuration "application" is up to date.
To force a rebuild of up-to-date targets, run again with --force.
Running ./bin/dub
Performing "debug" build using dmd for x86_64.
dub 1.19.0-rc.1+commit.20.g14cc8e5: target for configuration "application" is up to date.
To force a rebuild of up-to-date targets, run again with --force.
Running ./bin/dub
Performing "debug" build using dmd for x86_64.
dub 1.19.0-rc.1+commit.20.g14cc8e5: target for configuration "application" is up to date.
To force a rebuild of up-to-date targets, run again with --force.
...

I am now stuck here not knowing what should I do next or how should I compile.
I'm using WSL (Windows subsystem for linux)
I believe this is a beginner's issue so please help me out here.
Thanks.

On 01/01/2020 9:11 PM, Ankush Bhardwaj wrote:
> I am now stuck here not knowing what should I do next or how should I compile.

Compile what?
You successfully compiled and ran your dub build.

Please note the default action is to run, so using `dub` by itself is equivalent to `dub run`. Hence the recursive executions.

Use `dub build` if all you want to do is build.

On Wednesday, 1 January 2020 at 08:37:43 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> On 01/01/2020 9:11 PM, Ankush Bhardwaj wrote:
>> I am now stuck here not knowing what should I do next or how should I compile.
>
> Compile what?
> You successfully compiled and ran your dub build.
>
> Please note the default action is to run, so using `dub` by itself is equivalent to `dub run`. Hence the recursive executions.
>
> Use `dub build` if all you want to do is build.

In addition to that, there are different ways how you can contribute to Dub:

- enhancing the dub help on code.dlang.org
- finding duplicate/already solved issues on the github issue tracker

Especially the issues list is a good starting point for new contributors to get some ideas how to contribute.

Kind regards
Andre

On Wednesday, 1 January 2020 at 08:37:43 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> On 01/01/2020 9:11 PM, Ankush Bhardwaj wrote:
>> I am now stuck here not knowing what should I do next or how should I compile.
>
> Compile what?
> You successfully compiled and ran your dub build.
>
> Please note the default action is to run, so using `dub` by itself is equivalent to `dub run`. Hence the recursive executions.
>
> Use `dub build` if all you want to do is build.

Oops, my bad. For some reason, `build` happened again and again. It didn't stop after building once. Anyways `dub build` worked. Thanks :D

On Wednesday, 1 January 2020 at 13:19:20 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 January 2020 at 08:37:43 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>
> In addition to that, there are different ways how you can contribute to Dub:
>
> - enhancing the dub help on code.dlang.org
> - finding duplicate/already solved issues on the github issue tracker
>
> Especially the issues list is a good starting point for new contributors to get some ideas how to contribute.
>
> Kind regards
> Andre

Thanks. I'll definitely look at some issues on the issue tracker.

On Wednesday, 1 January 2020 at 13:19:20 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:

> In addition to that, there are different ways how you can contribute to Dub:
>
> - enhancing the dub help on code.dlang.org

Does anyone know dub well enough to do this? :)