On Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 13:33:03 UTC, Gor Gyolchanyan
wrote:
Good day, fellow D developers.
After spending much time figuring out how to make DMD work
fluently under
64-bit Windows 7 I've realized that this is not a trivial task
and lots of
people might have trouble with this, so I've decided to post my
solution,
that might save people a lot of time.
As we know, there are compatibility problems with 32-bit DMD
binaries,
because they are compiled using DMC back-end, which can only
produce OMF
binaries, so in order to avoid problems with linking against
externally
compiled libraries, it's much easier to stick to 64-bit
binaries, so that
DMD will use the Visual Studio linker to produce compatible
COFF binaries.
Another problem is that 32-bit DMD binaries are linked against
obsolete
32-bit WinAPI libraries, which lack some very important
functions, while
the 64-bit binaries are required to link with the 64-bit
libraries,
supplied by the the Windows SDK.
And here's how this could be arranged:
1. Prepare your development folder.
1.1. Create a folder with no spaces in its full path.
1.2. Store its full path in the '%DEV_DIR_ROOT%' environment
variable.
2. Get the Windows SDK.
2.1. Download the Windows SDK.
2.1.1. Navigate to
'http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows//bb980924.aspx'
in a web browser.
2.1.2. Under section 2 (number '2' in a green circle) click on
the bold
blue 'Install Now' link.
2.1.3. In the opened window click in the blue 'Download' button
at the
bottom of the page.
2.1.4. Make sure, that the Windows SDK installer
('winsdk_web.exe') is
downloaded.
2.2. Install the downloaded Windows SDK.
2.2.1. Navigate to the folder, where the Windows SDK installer
was
downloaded in a file browser.
2.2.2. Double-click on the installer and agree to security
warnings to
launch it.
2.2.3. Click next, read and agree to the license until you
reach the
'Install Locations' screen.
2.2.4. Store the path under 'Destination Folder for Tools' in
the
'%DEV_DIR_MSWINSDK%' (e.g. 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A') and click 'Next >'.
2.3.3. On the 'Installation Options' uncheck everything except
'x64
Libraries' and 'Visual C++ Compilers' and click 'Next >'.
2.3.4. Confirm that everything is correct and click 'Next >' to
start
installing.
2.3.5. Make sure, tata the installation is completed
succesfully.
2.3.6. Store the path to the installed Visual Studio C++
compiler into the
'%DEV_DIR_MSVC%' environment variable (e.g. 'C:\Program Files
(x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC').
3. Get the DMD.
3.1. Navigate to 'http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd2beta.zip' in a
web browser.
3.2. Make sure, that the DMD compiler archive ('dmd2beta.zip')
is
downloaded.
3.3. Unzip the archive into '%DEV_DIR_ROOT%\Tools', so that the
'dmd2'
folder in the archive will end up in
'%DEV_DIR_ROOT%\Tools\dmd2'.
3.4. Adapt the compiler configuration to the development
environment.
3.4.1. Open the file
'%DEV_DIR_ROOT%\Tools\dmd2\windows\bin\sc.ini' in a
text editor.
3.4.2. Replace the line with 'LIB=' with the line
'LIB="%DEV_DIR_WINSDK%\Lib\x64";"%DEV_DIR_MSVC%\lib\amd64";"%@P%\..\lib"'.
3.4.3. Add '-m64 -L/NOLOGO' to the 'DFLAGS' variable.
3.4.4. Remove the lines with 'VCINSTALLDIR=' and
'WindowsSdkDir='.
3.4.5. Replace the like with 'LINKCMD64=' with the line
'LINKCMD64="%DEV_DIR_MSVC%\bin\amd64\link.exe"'
Now "%DEV_DIR_ROOT%\Tools\dmd2\windows\bin\dmd.exe" will always
use the
Windows SDK libraries and Visual C++ compiler to produce 64-bit
COFF
binaries.
I hope I was helpful, because when I started to set up a
development
environment under 64-bit Windows 7, I went through a lot of
problems to get
here and I'd love to have this HOWTO at that time.
I just tried this with the current beta (may 25, 2.063). It lacks
the -m64 option. Was it present in some older beta ?
