From 178ed7d75c108528c74c3cbf9b7fe880c52bb81f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadim Lopatin Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:26:07 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] update readme --- README.md | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3d56e2a..218594e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -58,16 +58,33 @@ Mago debugger GitHub page: [https://github.com/rainers/mago](https://github.com/ Try DlangIDE ============ -Simple way to try it (you will need some D compiler and DUB utility): +You can use DUB utility and DMD compiler to download, build and run recent version of DlangIDE from GIT repository. - dub fetch dlangide && dub run --build=release dlangide +Pre-requisites: install DMD from [https://dlang.org/download.html](https://dlang.org/download.html). In recent DMD packages, DUB utility is included. -On Linux and OSX you will need to install libSDL2, which is used as a default backend. -On OSX, use homebrew or some other package manager to install it. +Now you can fetch, build and run DlangIDE: + + dub fetch dlangide + dub run --build=release dlangide + +OSX build notes +--------------- + +On OSX you will need to install libSDL2, which is used as a default backend. + +E.g. use homebrew or some other package manager to install it. brew install sdl2 -On Linux it's usually already installed. If not, for debian/ubuntu use: + +Linux build notes +----------------- + +On Linux will need to install libSDL2, which is used as a default backend. + +If it's not yet installed, install it in order to run DlangIDE. + +For debian/ubuntu use: sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev @@ -76,16 +93,22 @@ For RPM based distributions: sudo yum install SDL2-devel +Windows build notes +------------------- + Recent builds with dmd under windows have issues with crash in OPTILINK linker from DMD. Workaround: add --arch=x86_mscoff or --arch=x86_64 to DUB commandline +Build 32bit version using microsoft linker and COFF object and library file format: + dub run --build=release --arch=x86_mscoff dlangide +Build 64bit version using microsoft linker: dub run --build=release --arch=x86_64 dlangide -Note: unlike --arch=x86, both x86_mscoff and x86_64 have a dependency on linker from Visual Studio C++ compiler toolchain. +Note: unlike default --arch=x86, both x86_mscoff and x86_64 have a dependency on linker from Visual Studio C++ compiler toolchain. Build tools