How to build dlang.org dd files

Mike via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sun Aug 31 04:03:46 PDT 2014


On Sunday, 31 August 2014 at 05:41:58 UTC, Mike wrote:
> I've been trying to update some documentation on dlang.org.  
> The instructions at 
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md 
> say I should be able to do
>
> make -f posix.make file.html
>
> This doesn't seem to work, as I get "no rule t omake target 
> 'file.html'.
>
> I tried 'make -f posix.mak' and that requires dmd, druntime, 
> and maybe a mess of other things, and takes forever.  And 
> ultimately it fails with 'No rule to make target 'release'.  
> Stop.'
>
> Isn't there any easy one-liner I can use to render a single .dd 
> file to html to test my changes?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike

This seems to do it:

dmd -c -o- macros.ddoc doc.ddoc -Df{ddoc_filename}.html 
{ddoc_filename}.dd

If someone knows of a more "official" syntax, please let me know.

Mike


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