Just a quick heads-up for all the people using Windows and who
have previously complained about the usage of GNUmake for DMD's
testsuite.
Since a few days, all you need to run the testsuite is a DMD
compiler.
The test/run.d has a few handy features, so check out the new
documentation:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/test/README.md
The quick summary:
./run # runs all test (with all available threads)
./run -j1 # runs all test (with a single thread)
./run.d fail # runs all fail_compilation tests
./run.d compilable # runs all compilable tests
./run.d fail_compilation/diag10089.d # runs a single test
./run.d fail_compilation/diag*.d # if you shell supports
expansion, you can build your own subset of tests to run
./run.d fail AUTO_UPDATE=1 # automatically update the
TEST_OUTPUT text (and generated files soon)
It's intended as a drop-in replacement for the Makefile, so all
previous commands should work and it can be invoked from anywhere
(no need for -C).
There are still a few bash tests that might fail on Windows, so
use e.g. your git shell [2].
Disclaimer: test/run.d is currently still experimental. If you
run into any issues, please report them.
PS: The plan is to slowly transition from the Makefile to
test/run.d, so any issues you have with test/run.d are important.
[1] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8215
[2] https://gitforwindows.org
