Re: How to build DMD/Phobos on Windows
On Thursday, 25 August 2022 at 07:22:32 UTC, bauss wrote: We really need a page in the documentation that describes how to build each component of D for each major platform. There is on the wiki, but it's out of date: https://wiki.dlang.org/Building_under_Windows build.d works for dmd, but I haven't been able to build druntime for a while, even before the repo was merged into dmd's. (What I do is just rename and move dmd to a folder with existing druntime installed, but that doesn't really work beyond simple uses as it gets out of sync as the implementation changes). Last time I tried digger, even that didn't work. This is a problem.
Re: How to build DMD/Phobos on Windows
On Wednesday, 24 August 2022 at 18:06:29 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: It's been a long time but I've found some spare hours I want to devote to finally updating our std.uni to Unicode 14 (soon to migrate to 15 I guess). Thanks, much appreciated! So what is the canonical way to build D on Windows? Any pointers would be greately appreciated. Don't know since I don't use Windows anymore but if all else fails it probably works on WSL.
Re: How to build DMD/Phobos on Windows
On Wednesday, 24 August 2022 at 21:11:42 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
For dmd you use build.d that is in the repository.
Hm, I guess the makefiles should be deleted?
For phobos win64.mak (used for 32bit by default as well):
"# Makefile to build D runtime library phobos{64,32mscoff}.lib
for Windows MSVC"
So MSVC make.
It’s a shame as I cannot install MSVC on this laptop
(permissions).
Beyond that idk, but its starting point (oh and druntime is now
in dmd repo, so ugh... yeah)
Yeah, I see that build become more involved.
Re: How to build DMD/Phobos on Windows
On Wednesday, 24 August 2022 at 21:11:42 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
For dmd you use build.d that is in the repository.
For phobos win64.mak (used for 32bit by default as well):
"# Makefile to build D runtime library phobos{64,32mscoff}.lib
for Windows MSVC"
So MSVC make.
Beyond that idk, but its starting point (oh and druntime is now
in dmd repo, so ugh... yeah)
We really need a page in the documentation that describes how to
build each component of D for each major platform.
Re: How to build DMD/Phobos on Windows
For dmd you use build.d that is in the repository.
For phobos win64.mak (used for 32bit by default as well):
"# Makefile to build D runtime library phobos{64,32mscoff}.lib for
Windows MSVC"
So MSVC make.
Beyond that idk, but its starting point (oh and druntime is now in dmd
repo, so ugh... yeah)
How to build DMD/Phobos on Windows
It's been a long time but I've found some spare hours I want to devote to finally updating our std.uni to Unicode 14 (soon to migrate to 15 I guess). I downloaded source code of DMD/Phobos as usual and dropped them in the src folder of unpacked 7z distribution archive. Now time to build. Since DMD doesn't ship make anymore I guessed I needed a GNU make so I got that. Doing make -f win32.mak shows an endless stream of make entering the folder and then leaving it. make[45]: Entering directory 'C:/exp/dmd2/src/dmd' cd compiler\src make -f win32.mak make[46]: Entering directory 'C:/exp/dmd2/src/dmd' cd compiler\src make -f win32.mak make[47]: Entering directory 'C:/exp/dmd2/src/dmd' cd compiler\src make -f win32.mak make[48]: Entering directory 'C:/exp/dmd2/src/dmd' cd compiler\src make -f win32.mak make[49]: Entering directory 'C:/exp/dmd2/src/dmd' cd compiler\src make -f win32.mak make[50]: Entering directory 'C:/exp/dmd2/src/dmd' cd compiler\src make -f win32.mak make[51]: Entering directory 'C:/exp/dmd2/src/dmd' cd compiler\src make -f win32.mak Trying to run any makefiles in compiler/druntime folders do not produce anything useful either. So what is the canonical way to build D on Windows? Any pointers would be greately appreciated.
