I like to build DMD with MSVC because it complies a little faster than the shipped executable. I downloaded and installed a fresh copy of DMD 2.072.1, opened dmd2/dmd/vcbuild/dmd.sln, and tried to build. I got several compilation errors related to missing files, in particular:

1>c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: '..\glue.c': No such file or directory
1>c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: '..\msc.c': No such file or directory
1>c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: '..\toir.c': No such file or directory

I tried fiddling a bit with removing these files from the project, and I could get the first stage of the build to pass, but then I ran into linker errors later on. I don't know enough about how this project is set up, so I figured I'd just ask.

Any ideas what's going on? Did the VS project simply not get updated for the new release, or am I missing something in my build procedure? I can build my old installation of 2.071.0 without issue.

Thanks!

On 12/6/2016 6:15 PM, Lewis wrote:
> I like to build DMD with MSVC because it complies a little faster than the
> shipped executable. I downloaded and installed a fresh copy of DMD 2.072.1,
> opened dmd2/dmd/vcbuild/dmd.sln, and tried to build. I got several compilation
> errors related to missing files, in particular:
>
> 1>c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: '..\glue.c': No such file
> or directory
> 1>c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: '..\msc.c': No such file or
> directory
> 1>c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: '..\toir.c': No such file
> or directory
>
> I tried fiddling a bit with removing these files from the project, and I could
> get the first stage of the build to pass, but then I ran into linker errors
> later on. I don't know enough about how this project is set up, so I figured I'd
> just ask.
>
> Any ideas what's going on? Did the VS project simply not get updated for the new
> release, or am I missing something in my build procedure? I can build my old
> installation of 2.071.0 without issue.

Those files were converted to glue.d, etc., but obviously the VS build was not updated. Please file a bugzilla issue for it.

On Wednesday, 7 December 2016 at 02:49:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Those files were converted to glue.d, etc., but obviously the VS build was not updated. Please file a bugzilla issue for it.

Done, thanks!

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16954

On 12/6/2016 7:38 PM, Lewis wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 December 2016 at 02:49:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Those files were converted to glue.d, etc., but obviously the VS build was not
>> updated. Please file a bugzilla issue for it.
>
> Done, thanks!
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16954
>

Good! Next, you can also file a PR to fix it! Should be pretty simple.