DVM - D Version Manager

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:22:22 -0500, Lars T. Kyllingstad  
<public at kyllingen.nospamnet> wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:14:06 +0100, Don wrote:
>
>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> "Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message
>>> news:ihkvrr$1l02$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>> I've created a tool that installs and manages D compilers and
>>>> different versions.
>>>>
>>>> Description:
>>>>
>>>> DVM allows you to easily download and install D compilers and manage
>>>> different versions of the compilers. When you switch D compiler with
>>>> the "use" command the compiler will only be available in the current
>>>> shell. This allows you to have one version of the compiler in one
>>>> shell and another version in another shell. For example, have a D1
>>>> version in one shell and a D2 version in another.
>>>>
>>>> The tool is available at bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm The
>>>> wiki contains installation and usage instructions:
>>>> https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm/wiki/Home
>>>>
>>>> Platforms: currently only Posix
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yay! That sounds great!
>>>
>>> This is the second thing this week that I'd been intending to do and
>>> have been thrilled to be beaten to the punch :)
>>>
>>> You can bet I'll take a crack at porting it to
>>> windows...uhhh...assuming I can find the time...heh ;)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> FWIW, I just copy all the versions of dmd into olddmd/dmd2051, etc, and
>> then use a trivial batch file. (Uses junction from sysinternals to make
>> a symlink).
>> ---
>> @junction c:\dmd c:\olddmd\dmd%1 > nul @if not errorlevel 0 echo don't
>> have version %1 ---
>> eg, usedmd 2051
>
> Won't the script have to somehow set the import and library paths as
> well, so that DMD finds its corresponding druntime/phobos versions?

No, dmd uses the config file in the same directory as the exe.  This  
config file contains those paths.

-Steve