It's been a while since I did anything in Windows with D, and unfortunately, I need to again, and now I can't get druntime to build. I'm getting this lovely error:

dmc -c  src\rt\minit.asm
masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;

Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
Error: 'dmc' not found


I know that I've seen this before, but I can't remember how to fix the problem. dmc is definitely on my PATH (I successfully built dmd prior to trying to build druntime), so the error seems to be wrong, for whatever good that does me. I don't see a masm386 with dmc, so I don't know where that comes from. Maybe that's part of the problem.

Has anyone seen this problem and figured out how to get around it or fix it?

- Jonathan M Davis

On 19/01/2015 4:53 p.m., Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> It's been a while since I did anything in Windows with D, and unfortunately,
> I need to again, and now I can't get druntime to build. I'm getting this
> lovely error:
>
> dmc -c  src\rt\minit.asm
> masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;
>
> Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
> Error: 'dmc' not found
>
>
> I know that I've seen this before, but I can't remember how to fix the
> problem. dmc is definitely on my PATH (I successfully built dmd prior to
> trying to build druntime), so the error seems to be wrong, for whatever good
> that does me. I don't see a masm386 with dmc, so I don't know where that
> comes from. Maybe that's part of the problem.
>
> Has anyone seen this problem and figured out how to get around it or fix it?
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I've actually had a go at rebuilding druntime recently for dub.
This is one of the things I HATE the state of.
masm386 based upon what I read from the NG is a compiler written for 16bit and hence not runnable on 32bit Windows.
You will find however minit.obj in the repo along with minit.asm.
You shouldn't need to recompile minit.asm.

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn <digita lmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> Wrote in message:
> It's been a while since I did anything in Windows with D, and unfortunately, I need to again, and now I can't get druntime to build. I'm getting this lovely error:
> 
> dmc -c  src\rt\minit.asm
> masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;
> 
> Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
> Error: 'dmc' not found
> 
> 
> I know that I've seen this before, but I can't remember how to fix the problem. dmc is definitely on my PATH (I successfully built dmd prior to trying to build druntime), so the error seems to be wrong, for whatever good that does me. I don't see a masm386 with dmc, so I don't know where that comes from. Maybe that's part of the problem.
> 
> Has anyone seen this problem and figured out how to get around it or fix it?
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> 

It's been some months since I had this problem pop up, but I just
 ran touch on the minit.obj file so make thought it was up to date
 and used it.
-- 

On Sunday, January 18, 2015 23:21:43 jollie via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn <digita lmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> Wrote in message:
> > It's been a while since I did anything in Windows with D, and unfortunately, I need to again, and now I can't get druntime to build. I'm getting this lovely error:
> >
> > dmc -c  src\rt\minit.asm
> > masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;
> >
> > Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
> > Error: 'dmc' not found
> >
> >
> > I know that I've seen this before, but I can't remember how to fix the problem. dmc is definitely on my PATH (I successfully built dmd prior to trying to build druntime), so the error seems to be wrong, for whatever good that does me. I don't see a masm386 with dmc, so I don't know where that comes from. Maybe that's part of the problem.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this problem and figured out how to get around it or fix it?
> >
> > - Jonathan M Davis
> >
> >
>
> It's been some months since I had this problem pop up, but I just
>  ran touch on the minit.obj file so make thought it was up to date
>  and used it.

That did the trick. Thanks. It looks like that has to be done after every time I run clean. That definitely sucks.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Sunday, January 18, 2015 22:19:29 Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Sunday, January 18, 2015 23:21:43 jollie via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> > It's been some months since I had this problem pop up, but I just
> >  ran touch on the minit.obj file so make thought it was up to date
> >  and used it.
>
> That did the trick. Thanks. It looks like that has to be done after every time I run clean. That definitely sucks.

Oh. It looks like this page has an even better suggestion:

http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD

It suggests creating an empty masm386.bat file in a directory which is in your path (e.g. C:\dm\bin), and then it'll just work, since masm386 will do nothing. Still, I'm inclined to think that the makefile should be fixed so that it just uses the provided object file if can't be rebuilt on the system anyway.

- Jonathan M Davis

On 1/18/15 10:19 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Sunday, January 18, 2015 23:21:43 jollie via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn <digita
>> lmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> Wrote in message:
>>> It's been a while since I did anything in Windows with D, and unfortunately,
>>> I need to again, and now I can't get druntime to build. I'm getting this
>>> lovely error:
>>>
>>> dmc -c  src\rt\minit.asm
>>> masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;
>>>
>>> Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
>>> Error: 'dmc' not found
>>>
>>>
>>> I know that I've seen this before, but I can't remember how to fix the
>>> problem. dmc is definitely on my PATH (I successfully built dmd prior to
>>> trying to build druntime), so the error seems to be wrong, for whatever good
>>> that does me. I don't see a masm386 with dmc, so I don't know where that
>>> comes from. Maybe that's part of the problem.
>>>
>>> Has anyone seen this problem and figured out how to get around it or fix it?
>>>
>>> - Jonathan M Davis
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It's been some months since I had this problem pop up, but I just
>>   ran touch on the minit.obj file so make thought it was up to date
>>   and used it.
>
> That did the trick. Thanks. It looks like that has to be done after every
> time I run clean. That definitely sucks.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Can't we just change win32.mak to consider minit.obj part of the distribution? -- Andrei

On 1/18/15 11:22 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> It suggests creating an empty masm386.bat file in a directory which is in
> your path (e.g. C:\dm\bin), and then it'll just work, since masm386 will do
> nothing. Still, I'm inclined to think that the makefile should be fixed so
> that it just uses the provided object file if can't be rebuilt on the system
> anyway.

Yah, that's a pretty poor suggestion. -- Andrei