On Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 04:48:23 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
I went to build DMD on Windows for the first time tonight and I
have to say that it was a terrible experience when compared
with Linux.
First issue I ran into was having HOST_DC not being set. I'm
not sure if the DMD installer is supposed to do this or if I
needed to take care of it, but it wasn't mentioned anywhere I
could find. I finally just set it myself.
Then it builds DMD, but gets placed in dmd/src/ instead of its
own directory.
After DMD is built, other things keep getting built by DMC. I
get more than a few errors due to having an eof character on
the first line of some .h files, or something like that.
I also built druntime, but instead of trying to use a freshly
built dmd.exe in the neighboring DMD source directory, it went
for the one in PATH. I haven't bothered to build Phobos on
Windows yet.
Building DMD, Phobos, and druntime on Linux is so easy and
straight forward. It all works as expected. What's up with
building DMD on Windows?
The problem is that not many people use Windows to develop dmd.
AFAIK the makefile is supposed to work as autotester runs the
same.
There are a couple of devs using Windows, but it seems like they
aren't around here. Maybe you can try to ping them in our irc?
Anyhow probably the best hope you got is that we move away from
Makefiles to a cross-platform solution. It's work in progress,
but hopefully reaches us soon:
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/4194
