I've been building dmd from source since years ago, and only just noticed today that the dmd binary produced by `make -f posix.mak` insists that it's language version 2.084.  Why is this??? I thought the latest release was already up to 2.088??

Running dmd --version says it's 2.084.  Using pragma(msg, __VERSION__) also returns 2084UL.  What's going on??

Also, I tried compiling and running build.d myself, but it barfs with a linker error and dies trying to join a thread when an exception was thrown.  I've no idea what's going on anymore.

What's the correct way of building git master? Is `make -f posix.mak` no longer the "right" way? How do I get a compiler that's the actual latest git master? (Besides downloading a nightly, that is. I really would prefer to build from source.)


T

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On Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 23:38:09 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> I've been building dmd from source since years ago, and only just noticed today that the dmd binary produced by `make -f posix.mak` insists that it's language version 2.084.  Why is this???

i think it just pulls the contents of a file ../VERSION. which is in git now... like are you sure you git pulled from upstream and not just one of your own copies?

On Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 23:38:09 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> I've been building dmd from source since years ago, and only just noticed today that the dmd binary produced by `make -f posix.mak` insists that it's language version 2.084.  Why is this??? I thought the latest release was already up to 2.088??
>
> Running dmd --version says it's 2.084.  Using pragma(msg, __VERSION__) also returns 2084UL.  What's going on??
>
> Also, I tried compiling and running build.d myself, but it barfs with a linker error and dies trying to join a thread when an exception was thrown.  I've no idea what's going on anymore.
>
> What's the correct way of building git master? Is `make -f posix.mak` no longer the "right" way? How do I get a compiler that's the actual latest git master? (Besides downloading a nightly, that is. I really would prefer to build from source.)
>
>
> T

Which platform are you running building on? I just tested on Arch Linux 64-bit with the following:

rdmd src/build.d

And it produced a binary with the following output for `dmd --version`:

DMD64 D Compiler v2.088.0-240-gaf585f61a
Copyright (C) 1999-2019 by The D Language Foundation, All Rights Reserved written by Walter Bright

I also tried the same on Windows 10 64-bit and it worked with the same results.

Mike

On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 00:06:09 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:

> I just tested on Arch Linux 64-bit with the following:
>
> rdmd src/build.d
>
> And it produced a binary with the following output for `dmd --version`:
>
> DMD64 D Compiler v2.088.0-240-gaf585f61a
> Copyright (C) 1999-2019 by The D Language Foundation, All Rights Reserved written by Walter Bright
>
> I also tried the same on Windows 10 64-bit and it worked with the same results.
>
> Mike

BTW, build.d only builds dmd.  We haven't yet begun creating a build.d for druntime or phobos yet, though we would welcome any help doing so.

Mike