Bulding latest DMD and associated projects from github master

[qznc]

On Monday, 19 November 2012 at 00:40:10 UTC, Rob T wrote:
> First I cloned everything from github master, and that went 
> well but I'm now  encountering a lot of silly stumbling blocks 
> due to inadequate documentation, for example it's clear how to 
> build anything - period.
>
> There may be documentation somewhere(?), but all I could find 
> was this external blog post
> http://xtzgzorex.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/d-building-dmd-and-phobos-on-linux/
>
> The instructions in the blog allowed me to successfully build 
> DMD src with 64-bit arch on Linux. So far so good, but I'm sure 
> this is not the end of the problems I'll encounter.
>
> Being new to this, I'll know immediately where the 
> documentation is failing, so as I get stuck and unstuck I'm in 
> a good position to create missing documentation or improve on 
> the current documentation.
>
> If I'm to try and contribute, I have a few questions, for 
> example can anyone contribute at this level (build process)? If 
> I am allowed to contribute, then what's the process for making 
> contributions?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --rt

There is a page in the wiki now:

http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD

I wonder why druntime is a separate repository, though. It is 
strongly tied to dmd anyways.