Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 04-Aug-2015 01:30, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 8/3/15 5:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I had to set up dmd and friends on a fresh Ubuntu box, so I thought I'd
>> document the step-by-step process:
>>
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor
>
> You should make sure there's no overlap with this:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Get_involved
>
> I think it's a great idea to have a bootstrap for how to get your
> environment set up. It's been a long time since I did it. What I did is
> to download a dmd release zipfile, then delete the dmd, druntime, and
> phobos src, replacing it with cloned git repositories.
>

> I also deleted all the binaries/libraries under bin/os directory, and
> use symlinks to the built files from their appropriate source
> directories. This way I can test changes without having to create a new
> installation somewhere.
>

Yes, it's fairly simple way that I used countless times with great success.


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Dmitry Olshansky