On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:57:49 +0200 Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> wrote:
> On 2013-06-03 23:08, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > > I intend to. But I do think it would be good if we then update DVM > > to use the platform-specific versions, to preserve bandwidth and > > improve dload/installation speeds. > > I would like to rewrite the whole tool. Then we can fix all these > things. Haven't taken the time to do it yet. > Just curious: What sort of direction did you have in mind for a rewrite? Something about the general architecture of it you'd do differently? > > Possibly related to that, I keep meaning to look into updating DVM > > to install *both* -m32 and -m64 abilities on appropriate platforms > > (unless you've already beaten me to it?) > > No, I haven't done that. See above. > > BTW, DVM is not really working on Windows XP, or rather the installed > compilers. DVM installs the compilers in a path which contains > spaces. The compiler and/or the linker isn't happy with that. > I was using an XP box as my main machine until about a year ago. It always worked fine for me as I recall. The only "path with spaces" problem I had was when using DVM to build DMD using a version of DMC that was installed by DVM. That lead to a "paths with spaces" problem. I wasn't able to figure that out, although I suspected it may have had something to do with either DMD's makefiles or DMC's make.