Re: DMD, Windows and C
On 25.10.2017 18:57, kinke wrote: On Wednesday, 25 October 2017 at 16:05:48 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: In preparation for an upcoming blog series, and partly as a reaction to the "Windows is a second-class citizen" criticisms that have been cropping up lately, I've put together a primer on getting set up to use C and D together on Windows. It includes some background on why we need to install the MS toolchain to produce 64-bit binaries. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2017/10/25/dmd-windows-and-c/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/78olka/dmd_windows_and_c_getting_set_up_to_use_d_and_c/ LLVM's LLD is another option for linking on Windows (and cross-linking to Windows from other platforms); they used not to support debuginfos (.pdb), not sure what the current state is. `lld-link.exe` and `llvm-lib.exe` work as drop-in replacements, I tried lld-link just yesterday on a small DMD generated test file. Apart from not supporting the /MAP option it worked without debug information, but choked on debug symbols.
Re: DMD, Windows and C
On 25.10.2017 18:05, Mike Parker wrote: In preparation for an upcoming blog series, and partly as a reaction to the "Windows is a second-class citizen" criticisms that have been cropping up lately, I've put together a primer on getting set up to use C and D together on Windows. It includes some background on why we need to install the MS toolchain to produce 64-bit binaries. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2017/10/25/dmd-windows-and-c/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/78olka/dmd_windows_and_c_getting_set_up_to_use_d_and_c/ Thanks for the nice article. Two minor remarks: - the D installer already creates batch files dmd2vars32.bat and dmd2vars64.bat that modify the PATH environment variable (but don't include the DMC path) - DMD doesn't need lib.exe to build static libraries, that's built into DMD.
Re: Unit Testing in Action
On 2017-10-25 04:15, Walter Bright wrote: The problem is how to display it in a text file with the original source code. An option to output the result in XML or JSON would allow an editor or IDE more options to display the result, for example, hover on different expressions to show the result. -- /Jacob Carlborg
Re: DMD, Windows and C
On 2017-10-25 21:15, MrSmith wrote: I wish we had zero-dependence distributions of all compilers for Windows. I want to redist compiler with my application for easy modding. And requiring VisualStudio / BuildToos is too much garbage for a small task. (Ideally it should be 20-30 MB at max). I wish we had that for all platforms. -- /Jacob Carlborg
