On Thursday, 26 September 2013 at 06:25:17 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-09-25 15:36, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
>> I admit, the VBScript thing is a bit of a hack.
>
> If I recall correctly, you can use JavaScript as an alternative. I would consider that slightly better. It would of course be better if both could be avoided.

Powershell :)

On 2013-09-26 13:37, PauloPinto wrote:

> Powershell :)

I have never used that for scripting so I have no idea how it is. Also, it's not installed by default, at least not on all versions of Windows.

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/Jacob Carlborg

Am 26.09.2013 16:53, schrieb Jacob Carlborg:
> On 2013-09-26 13:37, PauloPinto wrote:
>
>> Powershell :)
>
> I have never used that for scripting so I have no idea how it is. Also,
> it's not installed by default, at least not on all versions of Windows.
>

It is, since Windows Vista, everything else is anyway already in life support.

But it requires some learning effort, that's true.

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Paulo

On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:36:51 -0400
Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe@semitwist.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 08:59:04 +0200
> Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario@gmx.de> wrote:
> > After the successful build I tried the 64-bit build. It stopped here:
> > 
> > Building Druntime 64-bit
> > Entering dir:
> > C:\Users\Rainer\AppData\Local\Temp\.create_dmd_release\druntime
> > Running: make MODEL=64 DMD=../dmd/src/dmd -f win64.mak
> >[...]
> > "\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC"\bin\amd64\cl
> > -c /Z7 /I"\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> > 10.0\VC"\INCLUDE /I"\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
> > SDKs\Windows\v7.0A"\Include src\core\stdc\errno.c -Foerrno_c.obj
> > Error: '\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> > 10.0\VC\bin\amd64\cl' not found
> > Entering dir: C:\tmp\d\installer2\create_dmd_release\x
> > create_dmd_release: Error: Command failed (ran from dir
> > 'C:\Users\Rainer\AppData\Local\Temp\.create_dmd_release\druntime'):
> > make MODEL=64 DMD=../dmd/src/dmd -f win64.mak
> > 
> > This happens because the VCDIR variable is not passed to the makefile (to work with VS2012+ you'll have to pass CC and AR explicitely as the path to the binaries inside the VS installation has changed).
> 
> Ugh, I wish MS would just pick a design as stick with it :/... I'll try to take care of that. On the bright side though, this *should* be the final critical issue blocking create_dmd_release from meeting its basic charter and being "pull request"-ready. Everything else seems to be working fine now on Windows and various Posixen in all my tests so far, so fingers crossed...
> 
> 

Should be fixed now.

On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 20:53:11 -0400
Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe@semitwist.com> wrote:

> tl;dr: The main things I need help with: Installing 32-bit libcurl on 64-bit Debian, testing on 64-bit FreeBSD, and figuring out WTF is so screwed up on Windows.
> 
> It's almost finished, but I've hit some problems I'm having a hell of a time figuring out. I'm getting a kinda brain-fried and need some help with it:
> 

Thanks everyone for the help! All known problems have been addressed as the pull request is here for standard destruction:

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/pull/24

On 9/29/13, Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe@semitwist.com> wrote:
> Thanks everyone for the help! All known problems have been addressed as the pull request is here for standard destruction:
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/pull/24

Do you think we could resolve the outdated import lib issue with this scrip? (http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6625)

dnewbie commented that he uses this approach when installing DMD:

cd $path_to_dmd_lib%
coffimplib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Lib\advapi32.lib" advapi32.lib
coffimplib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Lib\comctl32.lib" comctl32.lib
coffimplib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Lib\comdlg32.lib" comdlg32.lib
coffimplib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Lib\gdi32.lib"    gdi32.lib
coffimplib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Lib\kernel32.lib" kernel32.lib
coffimplib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Lib\shell32.lib"  shell32.lib
coffimplib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Lib\shlwapi.lib"  shlwapi.lib
coffimplib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Lib\user32.lib"   user32.lib
coffimplib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Lib\ws2_32.lib"   ws2_32.lib
coffimplib "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Lib\wsock32.lib"  wsock32.lib

On 10/8/13, Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com> wrote:
> scrip

*script