I just installed VisualD and enabled JSON output on my project and to my
delight F12 took me to my own symbols. Yay. Next, I thought it would
be grand if I could jump around phobos/druntime code the same way so I
went looking for JSON files for these. Sadly, they're not included in
the DMD release zip. Not to be foiled so easily I figured I'd try my
hand at building druntime and phobos.
So.. attempt #1, the naive approach. I cracked open the win32.mak files
for each and added -X to DFLAGS.
For druntime...
I did a "make -fwin32.mak clean" then "make -fwin32.mak" only to get:
Target 'target' is up to date
It seems that 'clean' doesn't clean everything, it gave an error:
The system cannot find the file specified.
for one of the myriad files included in the del command. I modified
win32.mak for druntime to perform a seperate del command for each item, eg.
clean:
del $(DOCS)
del $(IMPORTS)
del $(DRUNTIME)
del $(OBJS_TO_DELETE)
del $(GCSTUB)
this isn't perfect as I suspect if any file in any of those lists is
missing the delete will stop dead, but this does at least clean enough
to get me going again.
** (Walter, might be worth making a similar change to the master copy?)
I then repeated the make steps and managed to produce a druntime.lib
plus these JSON file..
bitop.json
gcstub.json
that's less than I was expecting.. is this because the dmd command to
build druntime.lib is a -lib and -X is not compatible/meaningful with it?
Ignoring that for now I moved on to phobos itself...
"make -fwin32.mak clean" worked, but "make -fwin32.mak" failed until I
added: "-...@p%\..\..\src\druntime\src" to my sc.ini
** (Walter, should that be there by default? .. perhaps not as you only
need it to rebuild phobos and most ppl don't do that).
Now "make -fwin32.mak" gets as far as the big dmd -lib command but this
time it crashes ***!
I do however have a few JSON files from the make:
c_stdio.json
Czlib.json
Dzlib.json
oldsyserror.json
It seems I am going to need to get smarter with the makefiles, instead
of attempting to piggy-back the lib build process I should build each
file seperately to produce a JSON...
