Vision document for H1 2018
rumbu
rumbu at rumbu.ro
Sun Mar 11 19:58:51 UTC 2018
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 17:15:28 UTC, Seb wrote:
> I assume you are using Windows?
Yes, I'm the typical lazy convenient Windows user scared of the
terminal window.
> Setup on Posix is really simple.
> git clone all three repos + run make.
I am happy for Posix users. Theoretically the process is the same
on Windows.
>
> There's also a bash script to automate this:
>
> https://github.com/dlang/tools/blob/master/setup.sh
This will need Linux subsystem as a Windows feature installed.
Bash scripts do not work on Windows. Or other third party
applications that are not listed as prerequisites on wiki.
>
> From what I heard it's a bit tricky on Windows. I only tried
> with wine and that worked out-of-the-box for me. Execute the
> DMD installer, set PATH, DM_HOME and HOST_DC and then run the
> win32 makefiles work fine.
make -fwin32.mak release
Error: don't know how to make 'release'
Ok, let's skip this, make it without "release".
Now test it:
cd test
make all -j8
Command error: undefined switch '-j8'
>
> What could be done from your perspective to make the setup
> easier?
From my perspective I would like to have an working setup, not
necessary easier. But if interested, to contribute to C#
compiler, you just need to open roslyn.sln in Visual Studio, make
your modification, run the test suite, commit, you're done.
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