On 29.10.2013 21:36, Brad Anderson wrote:
On Monday, 28 October 2013 at 19:14:17 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
I finally got around to making a version of Visual D that should work
for x64 out of the box with both the zip distribution and the new D
windows installer. Unfortunately it has to override the settings made
by the installer to sc.ini.
As in, make change to sc.ini itself? If so, what kind of changes?
No. Visual D now calls the linker by itself, but extracts settings from
sc.ini. To allow linking to the C runtime library of the current VS, it
has to provide the respective path. You can also override the linker
executable to avoid troubles with the mspdb*.dll dependencies. In
addition, invoking the 32-bit linker allows monitoring file accesses to
generate library dependencies.
I have prepared a release candidate here:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald/releases
I'll try it out when I get a free moment.
3 tiny nitpicks regarding the D installer:
- it does not remember the directory of a previous installation
Good idea. This is easy enough to do.
- it is listed in the "Program and Features" as a mere "D" without any
further info. That could be a bit more verbose.
The creation of the installer predates my interest in D so I never know
whether things like that were intentional or not. "DMD - Digital Mars D
Language Compiler" maybe?
That sounds ok for the "DisplayName". Other entries to fill could be
"DisplayIcon", "DisplayVersion", "Publisher" and "Comments".
- it would be nice if it could also provide a download of the 64-bit
curl library
Another thing I'm trying to find some free time to do. The 32-bit
version could use some updating to a more recent version of curl as
well. If someone else with more free time wants to do this all I did to
make it originally was run implib over a curl dll to make the OMF import
library and put it in a zip file with a directory structure that matches
dmd's zip so that when the installer unzips it everything just falls
into place. For 64-bit I'd just add the 64-bit curl libraries to the new
fangled lib64.
I have a 32-bit version of the curl library built from the same source
as the 64-bit version (i.e. 7.28.1). This is a single DLL without all
the additional DLL dependencies.
The link to the Visual D installer will probably get invalid pretty
soon, so maybe we should add some "LATEST" file somewhere in the
repository to grab the link to the latest release?
Yeah, I wasn't sure how to handle that situation. A web server redirect
would be the easiest to do normally but D's webserver situation is
difficult to work with since you have to ask someone to make the changes
and nobody but Walter, Andrei, and Jan really know what the webserver
setup is like.
The link on the download page needs updating anyway, so uploading a link
file should not make it any more problematic.
We could also just update the installer periodically. There is no reason
it needs to be tied to DMD's release cycle.
I agree, shouldn't be a big deal, but reducing the number of things to
update for a release would be nice.
