druntime build failing because of masm386 problems

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn]

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 at 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