On Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 14:30:44 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 04:48:23 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
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?
For historical reasons, the Windows makefiles take a different
approach in many aspects. One important point is that they are
limited to the feature set of the Digital Mars make
implementation, which is extremely basic.
There is one thing that I don't understand about the Windows
makefiles though. The Posix makefiles for druntime and phobos use
the dmd executable found in dmd/src/ and that makes sense. It is
the one you should be using. That is not the case for the Windows
makefiles though. It uses the one found on PATH even though it
would be easy to do the same as the Posix version. Why is that?
