10th Birthday for GDC

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/31/14, 7:16 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 1/31/14, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> * Ask the community for help NOT on a large matter.
>
> The way I see it both the GDC and LDC projects suffer from a difficult
> barrier to entry for anyone new to the compilers. For example, to
> build either of the compilers you need to go through a massive list of
> things that you have to do **manually**:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/Installation/Generic
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_from_source
>
> And those are Posix instructions. Windows instructions are typically
> out of date, randomly break, have never been tested, missing crucial
> info, etc etc. It's always a nightmare to build the damn thing.
>
> Why aren't there simple scripts that can auto-build the compilers from
> start to finish, including fetching the dependencies?
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This is very interesting observation, and an obvious area of 
improvement. Andrej, could you please file two issues under bugzilla 
with the respective tags ldc and gdc? I'll see if I can place bounties 
on them.


Andrei