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?
I used to have an awesome script that automates
DMD+druntime+Phobos construction. In the past it used to be in
the wiki but it was deleted since.
https://wiki.dlang.org/?title=Building_DMD&diff=6074&oldid=5567#Windows_-_AIO_solutions
It was just after the bootstrap and I've moved to Linux since, so
it's not granted to still work ! Be warned.
Personnaly I don't build dmd anymore, usually a simple -main
-unittest over a phobos module is enough to test locally a PR but
I know you will build a lot because of the GSOC so you need a
robust method. A script is fine is the obvious solution.
