Compiling DMD for *nix platforms

[Anders Bergh]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Leo Singer <aronnax at umd.edu> wrote:
> Does anyone know how to build DMD from source?
>
>  I am using gdc on Mac OS X and I am finding that it does not support all the bizarre syntax features I am throwing at it, probably because it is based on version 1 of the D language.  I'd like to try out DMD, and luckily source code comes in the archives on the download page (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html).  Unfortunately, there is no build script to make the compiler, and just trying to run g++ on all the .c files in the source directory is no good.
>

You can't compile dmd because it's not 100% open source, only the
frontend is. If you download the latest gdc code using svn then you
can do something like this to enable D 2 support:

./gcc/d/setup-gcc --enable-d-language=2 (or so, I don't remember)

Anders