Building druntime on MAC OS X

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-11-21 12:17, Andrew Edwards wrote:

> That is good but we will be building from a branch when it's time to
> prepare the binaries. Or do we first prepare the binaries then branch?

They should be built from a branch.

> Any idea how I access and run the auto tester from my machine? I've
> tried contacting Brad Anderson but no response. Maybe I had the wrong
> email address.

No, you can try here as well: 
http://forum.dlang.org/group/dmd-internals. Brad usually post there when 
something happens with the auto tester.

> This is the script I use to build DMD. It currently assumes there is a
> file (VERSION) in the current folder containing an existing branch tag
> (2.064, 2.064.2, etc...), retrieves the relevant repositories (DMD,
> PHOBOS, DRUNTIME and TOOLS), builds them, and produces a gz2 and dmg
> file in the $HOME directory. It is very brittle so any suggestions to
> make it more usable would be appreciated. The end goal is to run it as
> the last step in the auto tester which will eliminate more than half of
> the commands it currently contains.

Have you seen this:

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/pull/24

Also we already have a script that creates an installer for Mac OS X:

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/tree/master/osx

Better to use what we already have.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg