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Remove outdated info from dmd manual #4194
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$(H2 $(LEGACY_LNAME2 compiling_dmd, compiling-dmd, Compiling dmd)) | ||
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$(P Complete source code is provided to build the compiler. | ||
Follow these steps:) |
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Shouldn’t we keep at least some of that? Maybe replace it with a link to a Windows build of GNU Make (as in the Makefile itself) and note that building is as easy as running make
from a Phobos directory that sits next to the dmd
directory.
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make unittest
and make unittest-debug
might also be noteworthy mentions.
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There might be some more
dmc.zip (C and C++ compiler)</a> for Win32 | ||
(not required, but it complements dmd for Windows) | ||
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this last one you want to keep
@@ -69,16 +63,12 @@ performs these steps automatically. | |||
Unzip the files in the root directory. | |||
$(D dmd.zip) will create | |||
a $(D $(DMDDIR)) directory with all the files in it. | |||
$(D dmc.zip) will create | |||
a $(D \dm) directory with all the files in it. | |||
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ditto
A Google Summer of Code contributor came across build instructions here, which are outdated. Upon closer inspection, lots of other info on this page is out of date as well.