I was trying to build druntime. I got this error:
dmd -c -d -o- -Isrc -Iimport -Hfimport\core\sys\windows\windows.di
src\core\sys\windows\windows.d

dmc -c  src\core\stdc\errno.c -oerrno_c.obj

dmc -c  src\rt\complex.c

dmc -c  src\rt\minit.asm
masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;

Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;

Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
Error: 'dmc' not found

Strange. This thing never happened before.

"Andre Tampubolon" <andre@lc.vlsm.org> wrote in message news:jp1kld$15mj$1@digitalmars.com...
>I was trying to build druntime. I got this error:
> dmd -c -d -o- -Isrc -Iimport -Hfimport\core\sys\windows\windows.di src\core\sys\windows\windows.d
>
> dmc -c  src\core\stdc\errno.c -oerrno_c.obj
>
> dmc -c  src\rt\complex.c
>
> dmc -c  src\rt\minit.asm
> masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;
>
> Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
> masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;
>
> Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
> Error: 'dmc' not found
>
> Strange. This thing never happened before.

I've hit that before. Druntime comes with minit.obj already compiled. Apperently, minit.asm isn't expected to change, so it's not expected that minit.obj will need to be rebuilt. At least that's what I was told.

So what must have happened is the same as what happened to me: The timestamp on minit.asm was updated (or the file was inadvertantly changed). Or maybe minit.obj accidentally got deleted. Either way, make thinks minit needs to be rebuilt (which is not normally expected of minit), so it tries to, and it can't find masm386 (which doesn't come with DMD or DMC), so the error.

So just:

1. Check that minit.obj still exists, and if not, grab it again.

2. Make sure the timestamp on minit.asm isn't newer than minit.obj

3. Make sure minit.asm didn't get changed.

On Wed, 16 May 2012 18:35:33 -0700, Andre Tampubolon <andre@lc.vlsm.org>
wrote:

> I was trying to build druntime. I got this error:
> dmd -c -d -o- -Isrc -Iimport -Hfimport\core\sys\windows\windows.di
> src\core\sys\windows\windows.d
>
> dmc -c  src\core\stdc\errno.c -oerrno_c.obj
>
> dmc -c  src\rt\complex.c
>
> dmc -c  src\rt\minit.asm
> masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;
>
> Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
> masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;
>
> Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
> Error: 'dmc' not found
>
> Strange. This thing never happened before.

I just struck this as well after doing a rebase to bring my drt branch up
to date. But the question is, if minit.obj is already included, why does
it try to build minit.asm? It looks like that line could easily be deleted
to no effect.

-- 
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/

On Wed, 16 May 2012 18:35:33 -0700, Andre Tampubolon <andre@lc.vlsm.org> wrote:

> I was trying to build druntime. I got this error:
> dmd -c -d -o- -Isrc -Iimport -Hfimport\core\sys\windows\windows.di
> src\core\sys\windows\windows.d
>
> dmc -c  src\core\stdc\errno.c -oerrno_c.obj
>
> dmc -c  src\rt\complex.c
>
> dmc -c  src\rt\minit.asm
> masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;
>
> Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
> masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;
>
> Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
> Error: 'dmc' not found
>
> Strange. This thing never happened before.

It looks like 2 days ago someone DID in fact change the minit.asm file. They changed the references to LICENSE and README. Your best bet is probably to redownload minit.obj from the druntime repo to update it's modified date.

-- 
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/

"Adam Wilson" <flyboynw@gmail.com> wrote in message news:op.wefr0erm707hn8@invictus.skynet.com...
>
> It looks like 2 days ago someone DID in fact change the minit.asm file. They changed the references to LICENSE and README. Your best bet is probably to redownload minit.obj from the druntime repo to update it's modified date.
>

In that case, the copy of minit.obj in git really should have its timestamp updated too, otherwise people are just going to keep running into this. (Or, as someone suggested, just remove the "minit.obj depends on minit.asm" from the makefile.)

On Wed, 16 May 2012 22:53:59 -0700, Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe@semitwist.com> wrote:

> "Adam Wilson" <flyboynw@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:op.wefr0erm707hn8@invictus.skynet.com...
>>
>> It looks like 2 days ago someone DID in fact change the minit.asm file.
>> They changed the references to LICENSE and README. Your best bet is
>> probably to redownload minit.obj from the druntime repo to update it's
>> modified date.
>>
>
> In that case, the copy of minit.obj in git really should have its timestamp
> updated too, otherwise people are just going to keep running into this. (Or,
> as someone suggested, just remove the "minit.obj depends on minit.asm" from
> the makefile.)
>

I'm editing the makefiles anyways, it could be done, but I want to make sure there are no other weird dependencies on it first.

-- 
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/

minit.obj is still there.

I commented this part:
src\rt\minit.obj : src\rt\minit.asm
	$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) src\rt\minit.asm

That works.

On 5/17/2012 11:35 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Andre Tampubolon" <andre@lc.vlsm.org> wrote in message news:jp1kld$15mj$1@digitalmars.com...
>> I was trying to build druntime. I got this error:
>> dmd -c -d -o- -Isrc -Iimport -Hfimport\core\sys\windows\windows.di
>> src\core\sys\windows\windows.d
>>
>> dmc -c  src\core\stdc\errno.c -oerrno_c.obj
>>
>> dmc -c  src\rt\complex.c
>>
>> dmc -c  src\rt\minit.asm
>> masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;
>>
>> Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
>> masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;
>>
>> Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
>> Error: 'dmc' not found
>>
>> Strange. This thing never happened before.
> 
> I've hit that before. Druntime comes with minit.obj already compiled. Apperently, minit.asm isn't expected to change, so it's not expected that minit.obj will need to be rebuilt. At least that's what I was told.
> 
> So what must have happened is the same as what happened to me: The timestamp on minit.asm was updated (or the file was inadvertantly changed). Or maybe minit.obj accidentally got deleted. Either way, make thinks minit needs to be rebuilt (which is not normally expected of minit), so it tries to, and it can't find masm386 (which doesn't come with DMD or DMC), so the error.
> 
> So just:
> 
> 1. Check that minit.obj still exists, and if not, grab it again.
> 
> 2. Make sure the timestamp on minit.asm isn't newer than minit.obj
> 
> 3. Make sure minit.asm didn't get changed.
> 
> 

On Thu, 17 May 2012 01:53:59 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe@semitwist.com> wrote:


> (Or,
> as someone suggested, just remove the "minit.obj depends on minit.asm" from
> the makefile.)

I don't think this is a good idea, minit.asm could have code changes, in which case you are building with a stale object.  I'd rather have the error than accidentally use a stale object.

Any chance this asm file can be written in D with asm block?

-Steve

On 5/17/2012 6:38 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> Any chance this asm file can be written in D with asm block?

No.

On Thu, 17 May 2012 06:38:15 -0700, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 May 2012 01:53:59 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe@semitwist.com> wrote:
>
>
>> (Or,
>> as someone suggested, just remove the "minit.obj depends on minit.asm" from
>> the makefile.)
>
> I don't think this is a good idea, minit.asm could have code changes, in which case you are building with a stale object.  I'd rather have the error than accidentally use a stale object.
>
> Any chance this asm file can be written in D with asm block?
>
> -Steve

Ok, I never wrote the change into the makefiles anyways, I just updated from the repo to change the modified date.

-- 
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/