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How to Fork and Build dlang.org

This guide is for Posix users (Unix variants, OSX).

Make sure you have these prerequisites working:

• A github account
• The git command line utility
• The make utility (GNU version)
• The C++ compiler for your platform (invokable as gcc)
• Optional: latex for building the pdf documentation
• Optional: kindlegen for building the Kindle documentation

Getting the code

Create a working directory for the D language, e.g. ~/code/d. The remainder of this document calls that directory henceforth $R from "Root". To get the code:

cd $R
git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org
git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd

The dmd compiler is needed for processing the documentation.

Building the main site

Now in $R there are two directories called dmd and dlang.org. To build the main site, run this:

cd $R/dlang.org
make -f posix.mak html

This builds the dmd compiler itself first and then uses it to build the website pages. You may see warnings while the compiler is built. After make ended with error code 0, directory $R/dlang.org/web contains the produced HTML files. Take a moment to open $R/dlang.org/web/index.html in a browser.

Building the standard library documentation

Now that the main site is in place, the standard library documentation would be a good next step.

There is a small complicating factor: the standard library has two versions to build. One is the "release" version, i.e. the library for the currently released version of D. The other is the "prerelease" version, i.e. the library that is currently being worked on. The "release" version is built with the "release" compiler, and the current version is built with the current compiler (which we already have from the previous step).

Building the release libraries

Fortunately there's no need to fumble with version numbers and git tags etc.; all is automated. Run this command:

cd $R/dlang.org
make -f posix.mak druntime-release
make -f posix.mak phobos-release
make -f posix.mak apidocs-release

These commands tell you the release being build in their first line of output. Then they proceed and clone the appropriate release for dmd, druntime, and phobos. At the end of the command the following directories will be present in $R (actual release number may be different from 2.083.2 but is the same for all three directories): dlang.org, dmd, dmd-2.083.2, druntime-2.083.2, and phobos-2.083.2.

The output is in $R/dlang.org/web/phobos and $R/dlang.org/web/library.

Building the prerelease libraries

The more interesting stuff to build is the prerelease libraries because in all likelihood that's what need looking at and testing. To do that two more repositories containing the core and standard libraries are needed: druntime and phobos:

cd $R
git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime
git clone https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos

With the new repos in tow this builds the prerelease libraries:

cd $R/dlang.org
make -f posix.mak druntime-prerelease
make -f posix.mak phobos-prerelease
make -f posix.mak apidocs-prerelease

The output is in $R/dlang.org/web/phobos-prerelease and $R/dlang.org/web/library-prerelease.