DVM - D Version Manager 0.4.0

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-01-06 23:38, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Jacob Carlborg"<doob at me.com>  wrote in message
> news:je7p3p$1pl1$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> I just released a new version of DVM, 0.4.0. The only thing new in this
>> release in the "compile" command. This allows to compile DMD, druntime and
>> Phobos from github. Create a folder, clone DMD, druntime and Phobos in the
>> newly create folder, run "dvm compile folder" to compile everything. The
>> compiler is placed in the DMD directory.
>>
>
> In other words:
>
> $ git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd.git
> $ git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime.git
> $ git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos.git
> $ git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools.git  # for RDMD,
> but this is optional
> $ dvm compile
> $ ./dmd/bin32/dmd  # or ./dmd/bin64/dmd
> DMD32 D Compiler v2.0...
> ...etc...
>
> If you notice it downloading the latest DMD release before compiling,
> there's a reason for that: There are some files (from the bin and lib
> directories) that aren't in github, so it grabs them from the latest DMD
> release.
>
> BTW, This isn't just for Git DMD, it can also recompile release versions of
> DMD:
>
> $ wget https://github.com/downloads/D-Programming-Language/dmd/dmd.2.057.zip
> $ unzip dmd.2.057.zip
> $ dvm compile ./dmd2  # the directory is optional, DVM's default is "."
> $ ./dmd2/linux/bin32/dmd   # or ./dmd2/osx/bin64/dmd, etc...
>
> DVM will automatically detect whether you have a git-style or release-style
> project structure and act accordingly. Use DVM's -v (verbose) flag to see
> which it detects. It also detects D1 vs D2, so it can be used to compile
> D1/Phobos as well.
>
> Be aware, it might have some trouble will really old releases of DMD 1 and 2
> due to changes in the project structure and/or makefiles. But anything
> remotely recent should work fine (if not, please file a bug).
>
> If you're on Windows, it will automatically download and install DMC if DMC
> isn't detected on the PATH (you can also do it with "dvm install dmc"). But
> you may run into some "paths with spaces" trouble with the DMC toolchain
> that I wasn't able to fully track down, so if that happens, you should
> download DMC to a directory with no spaces:
>
> $ dvm fetch dmc
>
> and extract/install it manually.
>
>

Thanks for the elaborated explanation.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg