Despite of the mini drama last year I've continued developping dexed.
The changelog since last announce here is a bit long, check

  https://gitlab.com/basile.b/dexed/-/releases

for more information and get the releases (linux only).

On 4/25/20 2:55 AM, Basile B. wrote:
> Despite of the mini drama last year I've continued developping dexed.
> The changelog since last announce here is a bit long, check
> 
>    https://gitlab.com/basile.b/dexed/-/releases
> 
> for more information and get the releases (linux only).

I'm glad to see you continuing this!

-Steve

On Saturday, 25 April 2020 at 06:55:19 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> Despite of the mini drama last year I've continued developping dexed.
> The changelog since last announce here is a bit long, check
>
>   https://gitlab.com/basile.b/dexed/-/releases
>
> for more information and get the releases (linux only).

On Win10 64Bit, after compiling as described in https://basile.b.gitlab.io/dexed/build.html, I have a "dexed.exe" but if I run it, I get "couldn't find dexed-d.dll" ...

On Sunday, 3 May 2020 at 18:40:37 UTC, notna wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 April 2020 at 06:55:19 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>> Despite of the mini drama last year I've continued developping dexed.
>> The changelog since last announce here is a bit long, check
>>
>>   https://gitlab.com/basile.b/dexed/-/releases
>>
>> for more information and get the releases (linux only).
>
> On Win10 64Bit, after compiling as described in https://basile.b.gitlab.io/dexed/build.html, I have a "dexed.exe" but if I run it, I get "couldn't find dexed-d.dll" ...

It should be in the same folder as dexed.exe. If it's not there this means that the preprocess has failed. You must have ldc2 visible in the PATH variable.

For now I can only advice you tobuild libdexed-d.dll manually to see what the problem is.
in the repository, sub folder dexed-d, try

   $ dub.exe --compiler=ldc2

and tells me what's happening. dexed-d.dll should be created in the same folder as dexed.exe. TBH I don't know if Windows is still supported. As a user I have totally dropped this system, since I didn't use it since years but only to build dexed.

On Sunday, 3 May 2020 at 18:40:37 UTC, notna wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 April 2020 at 06:55:19 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>> Despite of the mini drama last year I've continued developping dexed.
>> The changelog since last announce here is a bit long, check
>>
>>   https://gitlab.com/basile.b/dexed/-/releases
>>
>> for more information and get the releases (linux only).
>
> On Win10 64Bit, after compiling as described in https://basile.b.gitlab.io/dexed/build.html, I have a "dexed.exe" but if I run it, I get "couldn't find dexed-d.dll" ...

Can you give a try again after pulling latest changes ?

Actually the library indicated as missing was build by calling bash which obviously could not work on Windows. I have pushed a change that replaces this by a direct call to dub since the script was essentially used to "cd" and that's not required as dub has "--root"

On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 at 12:53:29 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>>
>> On Win10 64Bit, after compiling as described in https://basile.b.gitlab.io/dexed/build.html, I have a "dexed.exe" but if I run it, I get "couldn't find dexed-d.dll" ...
>
> Can you give a try again after pulling latest changes ?
>
> Actually the library indicated as missing was build by calling bash which obviously could not work on Windows. I have pushed a change that replaces this by a direct call to dub since the script was essentially used to "cd" and that's not required as dub has "--root"

Thanks for your changes.

Seems like linking take a bit longer now but the DLL is still not build.
Another change => calling "dexed.exe" doesn't shop the error popup as it did before...

```powershell

C:\Temp\Git\dexed\dexed-d [master ≡]

λ  dub.exe --compiler=ldc2
Performing "debug" build using ldc2 for x86_64.
iz ~master: building configuration "library"...
stdx-allocator 2.77.5: building configuration "library"...
libdparse ~master: building configuration "library"...
dexed-d ~master: building configuration "library"...
Linking...
Target is a library. Skipping execution.

​C:\Temp\Git\dexed\dexed-d [master ≡]

λ  ls


    Directory: C:\Temp\Git\dexed\dexed-d


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
d-----       05.05.2020     21:57                .dub
d-----       03.05.2020     14:40                src
-a----       03.05.2020     14:40            307 dub.json
-a----       05.05.2020     21:48            144 dub.selections.json


​C:\Temp\Git\dexed\dexed-d [master ≡]

λ  ls .\src\


    Directory: C:\Temp\Git\dexed\dexed-d\src


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
-a----       03.05.2020     14:40           9863 common.d
-a----       03.05.2020     14:40            897 ddemangle.d
-a----       03.05.2020     14:40           6436 ddoc_template.d
-a----       03.05.2020     14:40          27235 halstead.d
-a----       03.05.2020     14:40           4321 imports.d
-a----       03.05.2020     14:40           1663 mainfun.d
-a----       03.05.2020     14:40          12663 symlist.d
-a----       03.05.2020     14:40           3397 todos.d


​C:\Temp\Git\dexed\dexed-d [master ≡]

λ  cd ..
​C:\Temp\Git\dexed [master ≡]

λ  fd --glob *.dll

​C:\Temp\Git\dexed [master ≡]
```

On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 at 20:03:38 UTC, notna wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 at 12:53:29 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>>>
>>> On Win10 64Bit, after compiling as described in https://basile.b.gitlab.io/dexed/build.html, I have a "dexed.exe" but if I run it, I get "couldn't find dexed-d.dll" ...
>>
>> Can you give a try again after pulling latest changes ?
>>
>> Actually the library indicated as missing was build by calling bash which obviously could not work on Windows. I have pushed a change that replaces this by a direct call to dub since the script was essentially used to "cd" and that's not required as dub has "--root"
>
> Thanks for your changes.
>
> Seems like linking take a bit longer now but the DLL is still not build.
> Another change => calling "dexed.exe" doesn't shop the error popup as it did before...
>
grrr... doesn't _SHOW_ the error popup as it did before...

On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 at 20:05:25 UTC, notna wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 at 20:03:38 UTC, notna wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 at 12:53:29 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Win10 64Bit, after compiling as described in https://basile.b.gitlab.io/dexed/build.html, I have a "dexed.exe" but if I run it, I get "couldn't find dexed-d.dll" ...
>>>
>>> Can you give a try again after pulling latest changes ?
>>>
>>> Actually the library indicated as missing was build by calling bash which obviously could not work on Windows. I have pushed a change that replaces this by a direct call to dub since the script was essentially used to "cd" and that's not required as dub has "--root"
>>
>> Thanks for your changes.
>>
>> Seems like linking take a bit longer now but the DLL is still not build.

The log from DUB tends to say the opposite. The dll should be in
"C:\Temp\Git\dexed\bin". Maybe the extension is missing then ?

>> Another change => calling "dexed.exe" doesn't shop the error popup as it did before...
>>
> grrr... doesn't _SHOW_ the error popup as it did before...

Try the default procedure now. i.e using lazbuild as explained in the documentation. As the library is statically linked this is mandatory anyway.

On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 at 22:00:30 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>
> Try the default procedure now. i.e using lazbuild as explained in the documentation. As the library is statically linked this is mandatory anyway.

pull'ed incl submodules again... re-build everything, DLL is there BUT...

- starting dexed.exe in PowerShell doesn't show anything
- starting dexed.exe in CMD brings up an error window, saying something like "application couldn't be started, (0xc000007b) ..."

On Thursday, 7 May 2020 at 23:50:51 UTC, notna wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 at 22:00:30 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>>
>> Try the default procedure now. i.e using lazbuild as explained in the documentation. As the library is statically linked this is mandatory anyway.
>
> pull'ed incl submodules again... re-build everything, DLL is there BUT...
>
> - starting dexed.exe in PowerShell doesn't show anything
> - starting dexed.exe in CMD brings up an error window, saying something like "application couldn't be started, (0xc000007b) ..."

Sorry, I'm tempted to drop official Windows support good. I have an old win7 DVD but I'd prefer if someone who actually uses Windows could fix this. For now let's talk here https://gitlab.com/basile.b/dexed/-/issues/37, as it is very specific.