On Sunday, 11 August 2013 at 05:48:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/10/2013 4:21 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Saturday, August 10, 2013 14:35:04 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Is this something that would be acceptable, or does building
DMD for
Windows need to stay as DM make?
I don't see any problem with it, but that doesn't mean that
Walter won't.
Tools built for Unix never work right on Windows. It's why, for
example, I run git on Linux and don't use the Windows badly
ported versions of git. Tiresome problems revolve around
failure to adapt to \ path separators, ; in PATH, CRLF line
endings, Windows SEH, case insensitive file names, no symbolic
links, etc., no Perl installed, etc.
Things can be wonky from a vanilla windows command prompt, which
is why I never use any Linux tools there. MSYS makes all those
problems go away. I use git exclusively on windows, but via
gitbash, which is built on top of MSYS.
Of course, it would be silly to require MSYS or Cygwin to build
on Windows, but there's always CMake. A number of open source
projects use it these days. Ship a configuration file with the
source, then the user can generate Makefiles for a number of
compilers and platforms.
