Just a quick heads-up for all the people using Windows and who have previously complained about the usage of GNUmake for DMD's testsuite.

Since a few days, all you need to run the testsuite is a DMD compiler.
The test/run.d has a few handy features, so check out the new documentation:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/test/README.md

The quick summary:

./run                # runs all test (with all available threads)
./run -j1            # runs all test (with a single thread)
./run.d fail         # runs all fail_compilation tests
./run.d compilable   # runs all compilable tests
./run.d fail_compilation/diag10089.d  # runs a single test
./run.d fail_compilation/diag*.d      # if you shell supports expansion, you can build your own subset of tests to run
./run.d fail AUTO_UPDATE=1            # automatically update the TEST_OUTPUT text (and generated files soon)

It's intended as a drop-in replacement for the Makefile, so all previous commands should work and it can be invoked from anywhere (no need for -C).

There are still a few bash tests that might fail on Windows, so use e.g. your git shell [2].

Disclaimer: test/run.d is currently still experimental. If you run into any issues, please report them.

PS: The plan is to slowly transition from the Makefile to test/run.d, so any issues you have with test/run.d are important.

[1] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8215
[2] https://gitforwindows.org

On Tuesday, 8 May 2018 at 12:51:42 UTC, Seb wrote:
> Just a quick heads-up for all the people using Windows and who have previously complained about the usage of GNUmake for DMD's testsuite.
>
> [...]

This is great news! Any chance at a slightly more detailed write up on the blog or announce?