DMD is now part of the doc pages on dlang.org

[Seb via Digitalmars-d]

Hi all,

I have excellent news on the front of DMD becoming a library.

DMD on dlang.org
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Since today DMD's documentation is browseable online on the 
released docs:

Ddoc: https://dlang.org/phobos/ddmd_mars.html
Ddox: https://dlang.org/library/ddmd/mars.html

In particular this is pretty handy with DDox's symbol search (top 
right), see e.g. [2] for example screenshots.
I guess that not many people noticed, but the prereleases pages 
(i.e. the current master branch) contained the DMD pages for 
quite some time:

Ddoc: https://dlang.org/phobos-prerelease/ddmd_mars.html
Ddox: https://dlang.org/library-prerelease/ddmd/mars.html

Status quo
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Many pages aren't well-documented for now and the blacklist of 
exposed modules [3] needs some expansion as well.
However, fixing these pages is now just a PR away (see the 
"Improve this page" button on the top-right).

Building DMD documentation pages
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If you build the pages yourself, you will be interested in the 
`-prerelease` ones as they are built from latest (i.e. your local 
dmd repository).
Just clone dlang.org and for the Ddoc pages, execute the 
`dmd-prerelease` target:

make -f posix.mak dmd-prerelease html

Of course the `html` target is only needed once and don't get 
confused by the files being in web/phobos-prerelease.
Or alternatively with Ddox (and the files being in 
web/library-prerelease):

make -f posix.mak apidocs-prerelease

There's also a bit hidden target that will spawn a Vibe.d 
instance and is faster to start as it only renders a 
documentation page on-demand:

make -f posix.mak apidocs-serve

Other work
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- Jacob is putting a ton of effort into making DMD easily 
accessible via DUB [4]
- Razvan is making sure that you can use the resulting library [5]

[1] Enable DMD docs on dlang.org PR: 
https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1671
[2] DDox search examples : http://imgur.com/a/lddjt
[3] Module blacklist: 
https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/blob/master/posix.mak#L73
[4] DMD as DUB package PR: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6771
[5] DMD as a library PR: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6836