On Monday, 29 January 2018 at 18:02:47 UTC, rjframe wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:25:34 +0000, Evan Burkey wrote:
Hi there, I have a problem that is eluding me, hoping someone
can help me see the light. I'm on Windows 10 using the latest
version of dmd. I have a directory with 2 files: "version.txt"
and "versioncheck.d". version.txt contains a single line of
text. I have the line:
immutable version = import("version.txt");
and my dmd switches are:
dmd -J. .\versioncheck.d
but dmd fails with "Error: unrecognized file extension". I've
searched the internet but found very little about this
problem. Hopefully I'm just missing something simple.
Thanks!
I have the same issue on Windows 10, but Linux works; have you
checked the issue tracker yet?
It looks like just `dmd -J .\versioncheck.d` should work [I
haven't tested this properly with an actual string mixin, but I
don't get that error this way]. On Windows, dmd doesn't seem to
like starting with the period.
So if it was in a different directory, instead of `dmd
-J.\somedir` on Windows you'd need to just do `dmd -Jsomedir`
--Ryan
So I played around with it a bit more and discovered what the
problem was. I normally am a Linux/BSD user but am running a
Win10 machine to test multi-platform compatibility. What I
discovered is that the Windows version has a special command
prompt called D2. I was using PowerShell (as that is this
system's default shell). Once I used the special D2 prompt the
Unix-style switches worked fine.
