Need help with Rebuild.exe and Wombat

[charles]

Wombat hasnt been kept up to date, and as is the fate of all D programs 
& libraries, unless you update the code with every DMD release it breaks.

I think their is a FastCGI that has been kept up to date with tango, try 
http://dsource.org/projects/fastcgi4d.

But I feel your pain on rebuild, I absouletly hated that error message, 
you can't even bring up the --help menu, Gregor if you're reading please 
fix that already!

Johannes wrote:
> I'm trying to build the example files for Wombat with Tango with DMD on Windows XP. D and Tango works now. I can also compile the Wombat example files if I pass DMD the -c option and get .obj's. However they cannot link, therefor I'm trying rebuild.exe as suggested in some d forum archive post. It drives me crazy.
> 
> Btw, I would try posting this in the Wombat forum at dsource.org but it only had one post ever, made months ago.
> 
> Anyway,
> I've downloaded the latest dsss-0.72-dmd-win.zip. I extracted rebuild.exe and rebuild_choosedc.exe into c:\dmd\bin.
> 
> My Wombat dgi and dbi folders are in c:\dmd\import\dbi and c:\dmd\import\dbi
> 
> Now, when I try the .sh build file for Wombat, all the rebuild lines says only:
> C:\dmd\src\wombat_examples>rebuild -version=LOG -clean -g -gc -full -debug -J. -I../  get.d -ofget.exe
> Cannot find a rebuild configuration directory.
> 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/browser/trunk/rebuild/README  says
> "Use 'rebuild --help' to get info."
> 
> This I do, then I get:
> C:\dmd\src\wombat_examples>rebuild --help
> Cannot find a rebuild configuration directory.
> 
> So, I created a rebuild.conf directory c:\dmd\bin\rebuild.conf. 
> 
> C:\dmd\bin>rebuild --help
> Ignore any error from GDC or DMD in the following lines.
> .\..\share\rebuild\testtango.d: module testtango cannot read file '.\..\share\re
> build\testtango.d'
> fopen: No such file or directory
> Profile 'default' does not exist.
> You may generate it by running rebuild_choosedc.exe
> 
> That last part made med run:
> 
> C:\dmd\bin>rebuild_choosedc.exe
> Ignore any error from GDC or DMD in the following lines.
> .\..\share\rebuild\testtango.d: module testtango cannot read file '.\..\share\re
> build\testtango.d'
> fopen: No such file or directory
> 
> Where does testtango.d come from? Is that somehow hardcoded into rebuild?
> 
> If Wombat has a hardcoded directory structure that you must use, that isn't explained in the source code archive, and is in no way obvious.