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| Posted by Andre Pany in reply to forkit | PermalinkReply |
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Andre Pany
Posted in reply to forkit
| On Friday, 28 January 2022 at 21:39:39 UTC, forkit wrote:
> No matter what instructions, blogs, articles... I use.. I simply cannot manage to build druntime,dmd,phobos, from source on Windows.
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> Of course, building from source in linux is a breeze.
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> But I cannot test my changes on Windows, cause I cannot build from source on Windows!
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> Does anyone have a step-by-step process, that is 'guaranteed' to work? (with as few unnecessary dependencies as possible please).
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> I'm happy to build a dedicated build machine for this purpose, with just the software needed to build from source.
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> NOTE: I said 'guaranteed' to work ;-) ... I've wasted to much time following instructions that just do not work.
Not an expert here, I just wonder. As DMD now supports cross compilation,the easiest solution would be to provide a Docker Image which compiles your local source files.
Therefore you need only the DMD sources and Docker on your windows OS, nothing more.
Kind regards
Andre
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