No matter what instructions, blogs, articles... I use.. I simply cannot manage to build druntime,dmd,phobos, from source on Windows.

Of course, building from source in linux is a breeze.

But I cannot test my changes on Windows, cause I cannot build from source on Windows!

Does anyone have a step-by-step process, that is 'guaranteed' to work? (with as few unnecessary dependencies as possible please).

I'm happy to build a dedicated build machine for this purpose, with just the software needed to build from source.

NOTE: I said 'guaranteed' to work ;-)  ... I've wasted to much time following instructions that just do not work.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 09:39:39PM +0000, forkit via Digitalmars-d 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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> Does anyone have a step-by-step process, that is 'guaranteed' to work? (with as few unnecessary dependencies as possible please).
[...]
> NOTE: I said 'guaranteed' to work ;-)  ... I've wasted to much time following instructions that just do not work.

Would help if you posted the exact error message(s) here (including how you expect it to behave) so that people know how to help you.  "It doesn't work" gives no information as to what went wrong, and isn't an actionable bug report.

Cf.: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html


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On Friday, 28 January 2022 at 21:55:07 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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> Would help if you posted the exact error message(s) here (including how you expect it to behave) so that people know how to help you.  "It doesn't work" gives no information as to what went wrong, and isn't an actionable bug report.
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> Cf.: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
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> T

the error(s) depend on what instructions I'm following....

yesterday I was using these instructions:

https://wiki.dlang.org/Building_under_Windows

what the $%@% ... it's so complicated!

I spent hours on it!

when googling about it, all kinds of people had all kinds of error messages..

I got some message about ../generated/ .. something not existing... which made no sense at all...

I really would prefer to not waste any more time on things that don't work.

I'm more interested in whether someone knows a step-by-step guaranteed way to build a build system **from scratch** (i.e. not adding stuff to an existing system that might cause all kinds of dependency problems, and hence you get all these nonsensical errors).

On linux, I just git the source and make. That's it.

On Friday, 28 January 2022 at 22:22:27 UTC, max haughton wrote:
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> Post exactly what you have tried and what about it doesn't work.

I'm really trying for a different approach here.

That is, start from something that is guaranteed to work, in all cases ;-)


i.e.

step 1 - start with a clean install of Windows 7 (ideally, cause I hate Win10!)
step 2 - install this version of this ...
step 3 - install this version of this ...
...
....
.....
...... then your done! And it all works!


My Windows pc has multiple VS versions installed, and all kinds of things as well... so anything other than starting from scratch is just inviting all the problems I've encountered.

On Friday, 28 January 2022 at 22:31:26 UTC, forkit wrote:
> On Friday, 28 January 2022 at 22:22:27 UTC, max haughton wrote:
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>> Post exactly what you have tried and what about it doesn't work.
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> I'm really trying for a different approach here.
>
> That is, start from something that is guaranteed to work, in all cases ;-)
>
>
> i.e.
>
> step 1 - start with a clean install of Windows 7 (ideally, cause I hate Win10!)
> step 2 - install this version of this ...
> step 3 - install this version of this ...
> ...
> ....
> .....
> ...... then your done! And it all works!
>
>
> My Windows pc has multiple VS versions installed, and all kinds of things as well... so anything other than starting from scratch is just inviting all the problems I've encountered.

I can't help if you don't say what you've actually tried to do. I haven't actually worked on D directly from windows for a while now so I can only fix things that are broken or point you in the right way rather than dictating what you are to do (in part because I'm not a slave)

On Friday, 28 January 2022 at 22:35:14 UTC, max haughton wrote:
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> I can't help if you don't say what you've actually tried to do. I haven't actually worked on D directly from windows for a while now so I can only fix things that are broken or point you in the right way rather than dictating what you are to do (in part because I'm not a slave)

As a systems admin/engineer, I build production systems from scratch.

They are **guaranteed** to work, as defined.

I can provide the instruction/scripts to others, they can run them, and they WILL work... ** guaranteed **

That's the approach I want to take here (as opposed to the approach your suggesting, which starts from an existing system, and which for me, has just wasted too many hours of my life that I cannot get back).